Abhaya K Agarwal is Partner-Strategy and Transaction, Infrastructure & Government and Public Sector, Ernst & Young India. Maansi S Shah is Senior Associate, EY India

Pullela Gopichand is the chief coach of the Indian badminton team

Jitish Kallat is a Mumbai-based artist

Mihir Chitre is author of the poetry books School of Age and Hyphenated; and is a writer-director

Boria Majumdar is a sport journalist and the author of, among other titles, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians. Gautam Bhattacharya is the joint editor of Sangbad Pratidin and a cricket commentator

Vikram Sampath is the author of a two-volume biography of Veer Savarkar, the concluding volume of which, titled Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966, is coming out in July

Aditya Kuvalekar teaches at the University of Essex. Kedar Phalke is a historian of medieval India who has written several books on the Maratha Empire

Jaya Jaitly is a politician and a curator of Indian handicrafts

Kanti Bajpai is a foreign affairs analyst

Aseem Shrivastava teaches ecosophy at Ashoka University, India. Rupert Read teaches philosophy at the University of East Anglia, UK

Coomi Kapoor, the author of The Emergency: A Personal History, is a political columnist based in Delhi

Former minister of foreign affairs, Pakistan

Dr Shwetal A. Patel is a writer and researcher based in London. He is a founding member of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

J Nandakumar is national convenor, Prajna Pravah, RSS’ intellectual arm

Levy is a journalist and filmmaker. Scott-Clark is a journalist. They have co-authored, among other titles, The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight

Nirupama Subramanian is a journalist