Frances Harrison is a journalist and author of Still Counting the Dead

Rujuta Diwekar is a nutritionist and an author

Rupa Subramanya is a commentator based in Mumbai

Radhika Oberoi is a Delhi-based journalist

Mini Krishnan is consultant, publishing, Oxford University Press

Amit Gurbaxani is the editor-in-chief and founder of thedailypao.com

Pranjul Bhandari is Chief India Economist, HSBC and Rohit Lamba is an assistant professor of Economics at Pennsylvania State University

A journalist by training, Svetlana Alexievich has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus. She is also the author of Zinky Boys (1990) and Chernobyl Prayer (1997)

Yusuf Anis Ahmad Ansari, the author of two books, is currently completing a biography of Akbar. He is a scholar of Islamic History