Naimul Karim is a journalist with the Dhaka-based The Daily Star

Raman Khanna is a member of the National Leadership Council of the Hindu American Foundation. The opinions expressed below are his own

Ibu Sanjeeb Garg is a Delhi-based analyst of policy issues in the Northeast. These are his personal views

Farrukh Dhondy is an author, playwright and screenwriter

Ananth Padmanabhan is a fellow at Carnegie India, working at the intersection of law, technology and policy. These are his personal views and do not reflect the institution’s position on this subject

Raza Rumi is editor of the Pakistani newspaper Daily Times. He teaches at Cornell University and Ithaca College. He is the author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveller and The Fractious Path: Pakistan’s Democratic Transition

Vishwajyoti Ghosh is the author of the graphic novel Delhi Calm (2010) and curated This Side That Side: Restorying Partition, an anthology of graphic narratives on Partition

Noor Zaheer is president of the National Federation of Indian Women and Indian Peoples Theatre Association. She is the author of My God is a Woman and Denied by Allah

Leo Saldanha works with Environment Support Group in Bangalore

Karthika Naïr is a Paris-based poet, dance producer and curator

Vinay Keerthi is a programmer and working on a historical novel on Vijayanagara Empire

R Shashank Reddy is a research qnalyst with Carnegie India, where he focuses on the security and strategic implications of emerging technologies. Deepakshi Rawat is a research intern at Carnegie India, and has a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Akhila Mathew teaches history at Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University

Veerendra Mishra is executive director, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan and director, National Service Scheme in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports