Gurcharan Das is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma, among other books. He was formerly CEO of Procter & Gamble India

Taruka Srivastava is currently pursuing her MA in Sports Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Aekta Kapoor is a writer and editor based in New Delhi

Shiraz Maher is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College, University of London, and teaches at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Venkat Dhulipala is a historian and the author of Creating A New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India (Cambridge University Press)

Aju John heads content and learning at myLaw

Kanishk Tharoor is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars

Waiel Awwad, a former South Asia Bureau Chief of Al Arabiya TV channel, is a war correspondent. The views expressed are his own

Parag Khanna is a Senior Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017), Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016) and The Second World (2008)

Dr Debotri Dhar teaches Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her most recent novel was The Courtesans of Karim Street

Khaled Ahmed is consulting editor at Newsweek Pakistan, Lahore

Reed Harrison Nirula is a misnomed OCI, yogi, and art enthusiast loving and loathing life in New Delhi

Praveen Rai is a political analyst at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi