Kalpish Ratna is the author of The Secret Life of Zika Virus (2017) and Synapse (2019)

Mini Kapoor is a Delhi-based writer

Harsh V Pant is Vice President, Studies and Foreign Policy, at Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi

Jai Arjun Singh is the author of The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: The Filmmaker Everyone Loves

Ranjit Lal is an author and environmentalist

Amit Khanna is a writer, filmmaker, media veteran and social commentator

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, curator, and critic

Sonali Khan was holding on to her virtue, and then she fell in love... with several men. She drinks whisky, not Cosmopolitan

Mayank Shekhar runs the pop-culture website TheW14.com

Bharat Karnad is Professor for National Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research and author of the forthcoming book, Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition

Iqbal Malhotra is an award-winning TV producer and the author of Red Fear: The China Threat

Ajay Kamalakaran is a writer and independent journalist with a special interest in Russia and the former Soviet Union

Tufail Ahmad writes on political Islam

Vineetha Mokkil is a writer based in Delhi