Andy Nicholls is the author of Scally: Confessions of a Category C Football Hooligan. The lifelong Everton fan has been banned from every ground in England and Wales, including a life ban at Goodison Park, Everton’s home ground

Ekaterina Motyakina is a Moscow-based freelance journalist who writes on Russian culture and society

Jairam Ramesh is a Member of Parliament and an author

James Crabtree is an associate professor of practice at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at Singapore National University. He was formerly the Mumbai bureau chief for the Financial Times

Mehr Tarar is a well-known Pakistani columnist

Lord Karan Bilimoria is founder and chairman of Cobra beer

Devdutt Pattanaik is the author and illustrator of Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata

Shonaleeka Kaul is associate professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

S Gopikrishna Warrier is senior contributing editor at Mongabay-India, an online publication on conservation and environment

Osama Manzar is founder-director of Digital Empowerment Foundation

David Gilmour is a British historian and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature

Mitu Samar is a first-generation entrepreneur and member of CII Indian Women Network’s steering council

Hindol Sengupta is the author of, among other titles, Being Hindu