RVS Mani shot to prominence by default. On account of the maneuvering of facts in the now infamous Ishrat Jahan case. As an officer of the Home Ministry, Mani had decided to put the facts before the Gujarat High Court. This did not suit the political dispensation in 2009, although the entire Internal Security establishment stood behind him.

Daya Prakash Sinha is one of the most renowned playwrights in India today. A recipient of Academy Award by Sangeet Natak Akademi (the National Academy of Performing Arts) and host of other prestigious awards, his plays are larger than life, timeless and rare modern classics, theatrical interpretations of historical or mythology inspired events; outstanding grand spectacles that unfurl across time and cultural eras. Acclaimed by both academics and the theatre world, his plays are taught in several universities across India and are very popular with PhD candidates. They are regularly enacted by different theatre groups all across the country.

Sangita P. Menon Malhan is a former journalist who worked with the Delhi Mid Day, The Asian Age, The Statesman and The Times of India. She moved to fulltime writing, translation, editing and teaching in 2008. Her earlier works include a collection of short stories in English, a book of poems in Urdu and an award-winning nonfiction on the media. Prior to this, she was a gold medallist in the National Cadet Corps and a glider pilot, who acquired her Private Pilot's Licence. She has a Diploma in Spanish from the Instituto Cervantes, Madrid; and an Advanced Diploma in French from the Alliance Française, Paris. She keenly follows politics, Art and music; teaches French and is a student of Bengali, Tamil and Gurmukhi. She aspires to become many things: a hyper polyglot, a film maker, an activist. The possibilities remain as endless as her zest for life.

N Sathiya Moorthy is a veteran journalist, political and foreign policy analyst based in Chennai, with a particular interest in contemporary socio-political history of Tamil Nadu, the rest of India and also neighbouring nations like Sri Lanka and Maldives. Yet, India and Tamil Nadu remains the mainstay of his study and his writing, thinking and talks. Throughout the late Eighties and the Nineties, Sathiya Moorthy had predicted the course of national politics and that of Tamil Nadu, through a deep understanding of the nation’s history and a deeper knowledge of how societies and politics needed to be acknowledged together – later extendable to the study of India’s southern neighbours, as well. . Sathiya Moorthy is at present Director, Chennai Chapter of the Observer Research Foundation, the multi-disciplinary Indian public-policy think-tank, headquartered in New Delhi.