Roderick Matthews specialises in Indian history. He is the author of Jinnah vs Gandhi and Mountbatten and the Partition of British India

Mehr Tarar is a Lahore-based columnist and author

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

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

Mini Kapoor is a Delhi-based writer

Aimee Ginsburg is the India correspondent for Yedioth Achronoth, Israel largest daily

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

Jai Arjun Singh is the author of The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: The Filmmaker Everyone Loves

Amit Khanna is a writer, filmmaker, media veteran and social commentator

Mayank Shekhar runs the pop-culture website TheW14.com

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, curator, and critic

Ranjit Lal is an author and environmentalist

Sonali Khan was holding on to her virtue, and then she fell in love... with several men. She drinks whisky, not Cosmopolitan

Bharat Karnad is Professor for National Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research and author of the forthcoming book, Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition