KANTI BAJPAI teaches at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is presently a Visiting Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.
AMITA BAVISKAR teaches Sociology at the University of Delhi.
BALDEV S. CHAUHAN is a Shimla-based journalist and critic.
STUART CORBRIDGE teaches Geography and International Studies at the Universities of Cambridge (UK) and Miami (US).
JOHN ELLIOTT is a former journalist with the Financial Times whose postings have included New Delhi and Hong Kong. He now writes from New Delhi for Fortune magazine, the New Statesman, and other publications.
J.N. DIXIT is former Foreign Secretary and former member of the National Security Advisory Board of India.
MARIA BEATRICE FAILLA is a Ph.D student in History of Art at the University of Genoa, Italy.
CHIARA GAUNA is a Ph.D student in History of Art at the University of Torino, Italy.
SAGARIKA GHOSE is Senior Special Correspondent for Outlook and author of the novel The Gin Drinkers.
SHOHINI GHOSH is a Reader at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
SHEKHAR GUPTA is the Editor of the Indian Express.
RADHIKA JHA is a dancer and the author of the novel Smell.
VATSALA KAUL is the Editor of Teens Today and a woman who has survived men trying to survive women who have survived men.
SEEMA KAZI is a freelance researcher who has worked on human rights with special reference to Muslim women for the past ten years.
MUKUL KESAVAN teaches history at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and is the author of the novel Looking Through Glass.
UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA is a civil servant based in Mumbai.
RALPH MATHERS is thirteen years old.
ABHIJIT ROY is a lecturer at the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
NILANJANA S. ROY is the Books Page Editor of Outlook and a Delhi-based freelance writer on arts and books.
PRANNOY ROY is President of New Delhi Television.
N.C. SAXENA is a member of the Administrative Service and is the Secretary of the Planning Commission, Government of India.
RANJANA SENGUPTA has worked as a journalist and is presently writing a biography of Delhi.
SHUDDHABRATA SENGUPTA is a documentary film-maker with the Raqs Collective and a freelance writer based in New Delhi.
RUMINA SETHI is a Reader at the Department of English, Panjab University, Chandigarh. She is the author of Myths of the Nation.
ALPA SHAH is a Ph.D student in Social Anthropology and Political Science at the London School of Economics.
PETER SINAI is a former Ambassador of India.
ALOK SINHA belongs to the Indian Administrative Service and has spent six years directly and five years indirectly in Food Security Administration.
SHIVA KUMAR SRINIVASAN teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.