Anchal Vohra writes on the Middle East and Europe

Maroof Raza is the author of, among other titles, Contested Lands: India, China and the Boundary Dispute. He is a consulting editor with Times TV Network

Rishad Saam Mehta is a travel writer with three books to his name, the latest being The Long Drive Home

Jason Burke is the international security correspondent of The Guardian and has reported extensively from the Middle East. He is the author of, among other titles, The New Threat: The Past, Present, and Future of Islamic Militancy

Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author of , among other titles, Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought and Hinduism and Its Sense of History

Sabin Iqbal is a journalist, novelist and literary curator. He curates Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters. His third novel, Tales from Qabristan, will be published soon

MG Vaidya is a leading RSS ideologue and its former spokerperson

Seema Sirohi is a Washington-based columnist and the author of Friends with Benefits: The India-US Story

Samantha de Bendern is an analyst of European political trends. She has worked with the European Commission and NATO

The writer is the author of The Butterfly Generation: A Personal Journey into the Passions and Follies of India’s Technicolor Youth, and the editor of House Spirit: Drinking in India

Gautam Chikermane is a Vice President at Observer Research Foundation. His latest books are Reading Sri Aurobindo (Penguin, 2022) and Reform Nation (HarperCollins, 2022)

Rev Dr Valson Thampu is the former principal of St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi

Dileep Premachandran is a sports columnist for The Independent, Mint Lounge and Arab News. He was formerly editor-in-chief of Wisden India

Suhrith Parthasarathy is an advocate practising at the Madras High Court