TCA Srinivasa Raghavan is a senior journalist and columnist. He is the author of Dialogue of the Deaf: The Government and the RBI

Prabha Chandran was an editor with some of India leading newspapers and has worked with the World Bank as a senior communications advisor

Lakshmi Chaudhry has worked at or written for almost every liberal rag in the United States, from the Village Voice to Salon.com to the Nation. She currently lives in Bangalore where she's working on getting a life.

Rahul Shivshankar is Consulting Editor, Network 18

Bhaichand Patel is a former director of the United Nations. He retired in 1997

Deepa Bhasthi is a Bengaluru-based writer

Anchal Vohra writes on the Middle East and Europe

Sandeep Balakrishna is founder and chief editor of The Dharma Dispatch. He is the author of, among other titles, Tipu Sultan: the Tyrant of Mysore and Invaders and Infidels: From Sindh to Delhi: The 500-Year Journey of Islamic Invasions. He has also translated SL Bhyrappa’s Aavarana from Kannada to English

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