Bruce Gilley is professor, department of political science, at Portland State University

Stephen Owen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Sheldon Pollock is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University

Jagdish N Sheth is the Charles H Kellstadt Professor of Business at Goizueta Business School, Emory University, US

Poulomi Chatterjee is an intern with Open Magazine

Antara Sengupta is a research fellow at Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai

The author is the Maulana Azad National Professor at the Indian Council Of Social Science Research and founder of Manushi, a human rights organisation

David Devadas is the author of The Generation of Rage in Kashmir

Vani is the author of The Recession Groom

R. Balashankar is a political analyst and former editor of the Organiser

Arvind Subramanian is the former Chief Economic Advisor of the Government of India

Madhavi Menon is professor of English and director of the Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality at Ashoka University

Prema Jayakumar is an author and translator based in Kochi

Pulasta Dhar is a football writer and television commentator

Piyush Tewari, founder and CEO of SaveLIFE Foundation, best known for its work to get India a Good Samaritan Law

Navin Chawla is a former Chief Election Commissioner of India

Kapka Kassabova participated in the Jaipur Literature Festival with the support of The British Academy. She is the author of Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Granta)