Anupama Chopra is a film critic and author. She tweets @anupamachopra

Janice Pariat is the author of three books. She is based between Delhi and Shillong. Her novel Everything the Light Touches releases in October 2022

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation

TP Sreenivasan is a former diplomat

Somak Ghoshal is an editor and writer based in Bengaluru

Vivek Menon is executive director and CEO, Wildlife Trust of India

Sumana Roy is an author. Her most recent book is My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories

Tishani Doshi is an author, her most recent collection of poems is A God at the Door

Kalpish Ratna is the author of The Secret Life of Zika Virus (2017) and Synapse (2019)