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

Jitendra N Bajpai is an adjunct faculty member of Columbia University and a former director of the World Bank

Rajeev Chandrasekhar is a Member of Parliament and a Technology Entrepreneur

Devashish Mitra is Professor of Economics and Cramer Professor of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York

Leena Manimekalai is an award winning filmmaker and a poet based in Chennai. She can be reached at leenamanimekalai @gmail.com

Sam Roggeveen is the editor of The Interpreter and a fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, Australia

Prajna Desai is an art historian, writer and curator based in Mumbai

Karan Lahiri is a litigator and Chaitanya Ramachandran a technology lawyer. Both are based in Delhi

Mukund Mohan is director at Microsoft Ventures. He is based in Seattle, US. He can be reached on Twitter @mukund and blogs at Bestengagingcommunities.com