Keerthik Sasidharan lives in New York and is the author of The Dharma Forest

Tunku Varadarajan is a fellow at New York University Law School’s Classical Liberal Institute

Nanditha Krishna is a historian and an environmentalist, and director of the CPR Institute of Indological Research in Chennai. She has co-written Madras Then Chennai Now (2014)

Somak Ghoshal is an editor and writer based in Bengaluru

TP Sreenivasan is a former diplomat

Dhiraj Nayyar is chief economist, Vedanta Ltd, and the author of Modi and Markets: Arguments for Transformation

Sumana Roy is an author. Her most recent book is VIP: Very Important Plant. Her nonfiction book Provincials will release in May 2024

Anupama Chopra is a film critic and author. She tweets @anupamachopra

Janice Pariat is the author of three books. She is based between Delhi and Shillong. Her novel Everything the Light Touches releases in October 2022

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground