Mary Longhurst is managing director and founder of Epoch Strategic Communications

Tara Sriram has designed aircraft interiors at Teague/Boeing and Textron Aviation

Jyotirmoy Saha is CEO of August Media Holdings, a Singapore-based entertainment content company, and founder of Tapow, a direct-to-mobile streaming startup

Dr RK Mani, chairman of End of Life Care in India Task Force’s steering committee, was an impleader in the Supreme Court case

Dr Roop Gursahani is a consultant neurologist at PD Hinduja National Hospital and a member of End of Life Care in India Task Force’s steering committee

Gurvinder Singh is a film director. This is an edited version of his lecture at the symposium ‘Against Storytelling’ held in Delhi recently

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

Aekta Kapoor is a writer and editor based in New Delhi

Kishore Singh is president of DAG Modern. He is the author of MF Husain: The Journey of a Legend

Gurcharan Das is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma, among other books. He was formerly CEO of Procter & Gamble India

Taruka Srivastava is currently pursuing her MA in Sports Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, UK