Poorna Swami is a Bengaluru-based writer and choreographer

Lalitha Suhasini is the former Editor of Rolling Stone India

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

Aekta Kapoor is the editor and publisher of eShe

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

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

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

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

The author is a poet, novelist and journalist. His novel, One Love, And The Many Lives of Osip B is scheduled for release early next year

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