Naomi Mihara is in Kathmandu to report for Aftershock Nepal, a collaborative journalism project facilitated by Global BU

Keki N Daruwalla is a poet and novelist

Sumita Dawra is an IAS officer who was posted as Head of the Economic Wing in the Indian Mission in Beijing for over three years till July 2014

AR Venkatachalapathy is a historian and Tamil writer. He is a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai

Professor BN Dwivedi is a BHU alumnus and an Institute Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU. He is a specialist in solar and space Plasma Physics.

Dr Ambrish Mithal is chairman and head, Endocrinology and Diabetes Division at Medanta, The Medicity, Gurgaon

Nirupama Rao is a former Foreign Secretary of India