Dhiraj Nayyar is chief economist, Vedanta Ltd, and the author of Modi and Markets: Arguments for Transformation

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

Mini Kapoor is a Delhi-based writer

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

Mayank Shekhar runs the pop-culture website TheW14.com

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

Tufail Ahmad writes on political Islam

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

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

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

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet and essayist, his most recent poetry collection is Hunchprose

Nanditha Krishna is a historian and an environmentalist, and director of the CPR Institute of Indological Research in Chennai. She has co-written Chennai Then Madras Now (2014)

Ajay Kamalakaran is a writer and independent journalist with a special interest in Russia and the former Soviet Union

Sourav Majumdar was a financial journalist for nearly two decades. He has now crossed over to the other side to get a first-hand taste of corporate life.

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