Pulapre Balakrishnan is a professor at Ashoka University, Sonipat, and senior fellow at IIM Kozhikode

Gaurav Joshi is a freelance writer based in Sydney who covered the Under-19 World Cup

Gurvinder Singh is a film director. This is an edited version of his lecture at the symposium ‘Against Storytelling’ held in Delhi recently

Dr Roop Gursahani is a consultant neurologist at PD Hinduja National Hospital and a member of End of Life Care in India Task Force’s steering committee

Dr RK Mani, chairman of End of Life Care in India Task Force’s steering committee, was an impleader in the Supreme Court case

Jyotirmoy Saha is CEO of August Media Holdings, a Singapore-based entertainment content company, and founder of Tapow, a direct-to-mobile streaming startup

Tara Sriram has designed aircraft interiors at Teague/Boeing and Textron Aviation

Mary Longhurst is managing director and founder of Epoch Strategic Communications

Bholenath Vishwakarma is an environmental policy professional. He is currently working on a short story collection set in New York

Abhinav Kumar is a serving police officer. These are his personal views

Rahul Desai is a film critic based in Mumbai. He writes for Film Companion and The Hindu

Deepak Narayanan is a Goa-based freelance journalist

Mugil Bhaskar is a translator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He writes on economics, chess and football