Devdutt Pattanaik is the author and illustrator of Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata

Lord Karan Bilimoria is founder and chairman of Cobra beer

Mehr Tarar is a well-known Pakistani columnist

James Crabtree is an associate professor of practice at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at Singapore National University. He was formerly the Mumbai bureau chief for the Financial Times

Jairam Ramesh is a Member of Parliament and an author

Yusuf Ahmad Ansari is currently completing a biography of Feroze Gandhi for Roli Books and a biography of Mughal Emperor Akbar for Penguin India

Ekaterina Motyakina is a Moscow-based freelance journalist who writes on Russian culture and society

Amit Gurbaxani is the editor-in-chief and founder of thedailypao.com