RALPH BUULTJENS is former Nehru Professor at Cambridge University and teaches at New York University. He is the author of several books including Windows on India.
IRFAN HABIB is a scientist based at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi.
KANCHA ILAIAH is Reader in Political Science at the Central University, Hyderabad and the author of Why I Am Not A Hindu.
PARTHA SARATHI GUPTA is a distinguished historian who has recently edited the first volumes of the authoritative Towards Freedom, commissioned by the Indian Council of Historical Research.
PRATIK KANJILAL is senior assistant editor with The Indian Express.
HARISH KHARE is deputy bureau chief of The Hindu.
SALEEM KIDWAI is a historian based in Delhi and is working on a book on the life of Begum Akhtar.
PRIMILA LEWIS is a freelance editor and author. Her last book was Social Action and the Labouring Poor.
ANIA LOOMBA is Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics and English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the author of Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama.
SHOBHIT MAHAJAN is a cosmologist and astrophysicist who teaches at the Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi.
D. R. NAGARAJ is the Director of the Centre for Translation at the National Akademi of Letters, Bangalore and the author of The Flaming Feet.
MAKARAND PARANJAPE is Associate Professor of Humanities & Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and has recently edited Nativism: Essays in Criticism for the Sahitya Akademi.
RAVI SHANKAR is a well known cartoonist and a senior editor at India Today. He is also the author of Scream of Dragonflies, a collection of short Stories.