Aanchal Malhotra is an oral historian and writer from New Delhi, India.

Aarti Wig is the Head of Future Thinking at Yunus Social Business Global Initiatives, Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus’s accelerator for social business.

Adi Pocha is a Mumbai based writer, who has written commercially for television and advertising since 1984.

Akash Khurana has segued between theatre, film, television, academia and corporate life for over four decades.

Amani Saeed is a writer who treads the line between roots and routes.

Ambi Parameswaran is a branding and advertising veteran with over four decades of experience, an independent brand coach and a bestselling author of ten books.

Anil Pradhan (he/him/his) is a PhD candidate and UGC Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Anirudh Kanisetti is the author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India.

Anirudh Suri is intrigued by how technology is shaping our world, society and values.

Anita Vachharajani is a Mumbai-based writer, her book Amrita Sher-Gil: Rebel with a Paintbrush has won the Sahitya Akademi’s Bal Sahitya Puraskar Award, 2021.

Antoine Lewis is a Food & Wine writer and columnist.

Antoinette Lattouf is an Australian-Lebanese multi-award winning broadcaster, columnist, author, diversity advocate and mental health ambassador.

A broadcast journalist, Anuradha has spent over 25 years creating feature programming for CNBCTV18 and CNN News18.

Arjun Raj Gaind is the author of The Anatomy of Loss, published by Bloomsbury India.

Arundhati Bhattacharya is the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer for Salesforce, India.

Ashima Goyal, Emeritus Professor at IGIDR, Mumbai, is widely published in institutional and open economy macroeconomics, international finance and governance, with books and articles with major referred publishers.

Ashwin Sanghi ranks among India’s highest selling authors in English fiction, for which he has won several awards. He has also written two New York Times best-selling crime thrillers with James Patterson. Ashwin co-writes and edits titles in the 13 Steps series on diverse life-related matters. 

Audrey Magee is from Ireland and lives in Wicklow. The Colony, her second novel, was published last February and has been nominated for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Award-winning journalist Bahar Dutt trained as a conservation biologist and has worked as an environment editor with India’s leading English news channel, CNN-News18.

Christopher Kloeble is an award-winning scriptwriter and the author of three novels, a short story collection and a memoir.

Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including Brooklyn and The Magician, and two collections of stories.

Damon Galgut is an award-winning novelist and playwright from South Africa. He won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize for his book The Good Doctor.

Dave Eggers is an American novelist and journalist. His books, include The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, and What Is the What, winner of France’s Prix Médicis Etranger.

David Polonsky is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, where he now teaches.

Deepak B. Mehta is a literary critic, researcher, translator and freelance journalist.

Deepanjana Pal is the author of two children’s books, one thriller and one biography.

Dilip D’Souza has had a global education, including at Pilani, Providence, Delhi, Rishi Valley, Bombay, Cambridge, Austin.

Dina Nayeri is the author of The Ungrateful Refugee, winner of the Geschwister Scholl Preis, finalist for The LA Times Book Prize, Kirkus Prize, and ELLE Grand Prix des Lectrices.

Faye D’Souza  is an award winning journalist, who will soon be launching her own digital news platform.

Gabrielle Chan is the rural editor at Guardian Australia.

Garfield Dsouza is a freelance writer/editor/teacher/podcaster.

Gaurav Gala started off his career in early 2002 as a broadcast journalist, with a specialisation in sports and served as the sports editor of India Today, the India Today Group’s twenty-four-hour English news channel.

Gayatri Rangachari Shah is a Mumbai based journalist, columnist and author. She is co-author of Changemakers: 20 Women Transforming Bollywood Behind the Scenes.

Geeta Seshu is a journalist and media analyst.

Geetanjali Shree is the winner of the International Booker Prize for 2022 for the English translation of her novel Ret Samadhi, titled Tomb of Sand.

George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental activist.