James Astill is The Economist’s Asia editor, based in London. He was previously its Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist. He is the author of The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption, and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India. He is a contributor to Open

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

Suhel Seth is Managing Partner of Counselage India and can be reached at suhel@counselage.com

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

Shashi Tharoor is a Congress MP. He is the author of, among other titles, The Struggle for India’s Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy and Ambedkar: A Life

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

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