Boria Majumdar is a sport journalist and the author of, among other titles, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians. Kushan Sarkar is a sport journalist

Rahul Sagar is Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at New York University Abu Dhabi

Sreejit Datta is Assistant Professor and Director of Rashtram Centre for Civilisational Studies at the Rashtram School of Public Leadership, Rishihood University, Sonipat, Haryana and Raghava Krishna is Co-Founder & Associate Dean - Academics, Rashtram School of Public Leadership

Rajnish Kumar is former chairman, State Bank of India. Views are personal

Subramanian Swamy is a Member of Rajya Sabha

Nitin A Gokhale is a national security analyst, author and media entrepreneur

Kanwal Sibal is a former foreign secretary

Nirmala Sitharaman is Union Finance Minister

Upinder Singh is a professor of history at Ashoka University, Sonipat

Julius Fein is a British historian. Krishnan Srinivasan is a former foreign secretary

Siddhartha Sarma is an author and journalist. His most recent novel is Twilight in a Knotted World

Rejimon Kuttappan is a journalist and migrant rights defender

Bimal Jalan is a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and a former member of Rajya Sabha

Guru Prakash Paswan is assistant professor of law at Patna University and the author of Makers of Modern Dalit History

Anu Majumdar first came to Auroville in 1979 where she has worked in several areas including the Matrimandir construction site and as a dancer-choreographer with the Auroville Dance Lab Her books include Refugees from Paradise and God Enchanter, (fiction), Island of Infinity and Infinity Papers (YA) Mobile Hour and Light Matter (poetry). Her poems and stories have been anthologized, written for choreography, for art installations and published in Prairie Schooner, The Punch Magazine, Scroll and Arts Illustrated and others. Auroville: A City for the Future is her ninth book.