Aekta Kapoor is the editor and publisher of eShe

Lalitha Suhasini is the former Editor of Rolling Stone India

Poorna Swami is a Bengaluru-based writer and choreographer

Manu S Pillai is a historian and essayist. His most recent book is The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan is an author, most recently of Girls of the Mahabharata: The One Who Had Two Lives

Devapriya Roy is the author, along with Saurav Jha, of The Heat and Dust Project: The Broke Couple’s Guide to Bharat

Devangshu Datta, a journalist based in Delhi, writes on markets and technology

Sreedeep is a sociologist with Shiv Nadar University and the author of Consumerist Encounters. Shivanshi and Vaishnavi are undergraduate students of International Relations at the university. Bhavika and Paavni posed for the representational images

Zac O’Yeah is the author of the MrMajestic series of detective novels set in Bengaluru

Mani Shankar Aiyar, a diplomat turned politician, is a former Union minister and an author of several books

William Dalrymple is an essayist and historian. He is the author, most recently, of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire