Roderick Matthews specialises in Indian history. He is the author of Jinnah vs Gandhi and Mountbatten and the Partition of British India

Mehr Tarar is a Lahore-based columnist and author

Vivek Menon is executive director and CEO, Wildlife Trust of India

Tishani Doshi is an author, her most recent collection of poems is A God at the Door

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

Mini Kapoor is a Delhi-based writer

Aimee Ginsburg is the India correspondent for Yedioth Achronoth, Israel largest daily

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

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

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, curator, and critic

Ranjit Lal is an author and environmentalist

Mayank Shekhar runs the pop-culture website TheW14.com

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

Tufail Ahmad writes on political Islam