Gilles Kepel is a professor of political science at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris

Rishad Saam Mehta is a travel writer based in Mumbai and the author of Fast Cars & Fidgety Feet

Gilles Verniers is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ashoka University

Manu Sanan is a lawyer currently based in Oxford

Rajesh Raj S N is at the Sikkim University

Subash S is Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Deepa Anappara is the author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (Hamish Hamilton)

Kavitha Muralidharan is a Chennai-based independent journalist and translator

Meera Jatav is co-founders of the Chitrakoot Collective

Sanjeev Sanyal is Principal Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance