Rupa Subramanya is a commentator based in Mumbai

Radhika Oberoi is a Delhi-based journalist

Mini Krishnan is consultant, publishing, Oxford University Press

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

Matthew J Kuiper is a historian and researcher at the Religious Studies Department of Missouri State University, USA

Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times

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

Shweta Taneja is a fantasy author. Her latest novel is The Matsya Curse, ‘an Anantya Tantrist Mystery’

K Kannan is a former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court

A journalist by training, Svetlana Alexievich has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus. She is also the author of Zinky Boys (1990) and Chernobyl Prayer (1997)

Pranjul Bhandari is Chief India Economist, HSBC and Rohit Lamba is an assistant professor of Economics at Pennsylvania State University

Satvik Varma (L) and Vikrant Pachnanda are lawyers based in Delhi

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