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

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

Ranjit Lal is an author and environmentalist

Mayank Shekhar runs the pop-culture website TheW14.com

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

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

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

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

Tufail Ahmad writes on political Islam

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

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

Vineetha Mokkil is a writer based in Delhi

Sourav Majumdar was a financial journalist for nearly two decades. He has now crossed over to the other side to get a first-hand taste of corporate life.