Janmejaya Sinha is Chairman India and Vincent Chin is Global Leader Public Sector Practice of the Boston Consulting Group

Sanjay Prasad is a senior executive in a diversified corporate group

K.S. Gopal works in the advertising business and lives in one of Mumbai's co-operative housing societies

Kunal Singh is a research scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

Mohan Malik is a Sinologist and the author of China and India: Great Power Rivals and editor of Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from China, India and the US

Ramesh Sharma is an Emmy-nominated, national and international award-winning filmmaker whose latest film Ahimsa: Gandhi—The Power of the Powerless is ready for worldwide release

Hamilton is an Australian academic and author. Ohlberg is a senior fellow in the Asia Program of the German Marshall Fund

Sajjid Z. Chinoy is Chief India Economist at JP Morgan. Views are personal

GN Devy is Chairman, The People’s Linguistic Survey of India

The author teaches literary & cultural studies at FLAME University, Pune

The author is a student of journalism and mass communication

Srinivas Reddy is a scholar, musician and poet

Aseem Shrivastava teaches ecosophy at Ashoka University. Aryaman Jain is an environmental engineer

Shashi Tharoor is a Member of Parliament and the author, most recently, of The Hindu Way: An Introduction to Hinduism. John Koshy is his Chief of Staff

Poulomi Chakrabarti is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Sunita Kohli is a designer and an author