Aashish Chandorkar works as counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India to the World Trade Organization in Geneva

Uttam Sinha is a senior fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses and author of Indus Basin Uninterrupted

Deepansh Duggal is an art and culture writer based in Delhi

Ghulam Nabi Azad, former leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha, is founder and president of the Democratic Progressive Azad Party

Swati Srivastava is a journalist based in Lucknow

Sudarshan Ramabadran is author and researcher

The author is Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Sports and Youth Welfare, Government of Uttar Pradesh

Sourish Bhattacharyya is a journalist and the co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indian Cuisine

Joya Chatterji is Professor of South Asian History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She specialises in modern South Asian history and is the author of, among other titles, The Spoils of Partition

The author is Dean, Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University

Ramesh K Goyal is Vice-Chancellor, Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University

Mohammad Javed is Associate Professor, NIFT Mumbai

Ashok Immanuel V is Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be university)

Ved Kumari is Vice-Chancellor, National Law University Odisha