James Astill is the Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist for The Economist. He is a contributor to Open

The writer teaches at the Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, Sonipat, Haryana

Dr Ambrish Mithal is Chairman, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Max Healthcare

Minhaz Merchant is an author, editor and publisher

Tunku Varadarajan is a fellow at New York University Law School’s Classical Liberal Institute

Shashi Tharoor is a Congress MP. He is the author, most recently, of The Struggle for India’s Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy

Keerthik Sasidharan lives in New York and is the author of The Dharma Forest