P. Chidambaram is an Indian politician and attorney who currently serves as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha and formerly served as Union Minister of Finance of India.	Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician and a former diplomat at the UN who is currently serving as Member of Parliament.	Rajdeep Sardesai is an Indian news anchor and author. Sardesai is currently a consulting editor at the India Today group, and hosts India Today Television.
Paul Beatty is an American author and professo at Columbia University. In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout.	Javed Akhtar is an Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter. He is a recipient of the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan,the Sahitya Akademi Award as well as five National Film Awards.	Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and professor at MIT and her daughter Kiran Desai is also an author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
Zakir Hussain is an Indian tabla player in Hindustani classical music, musical producer, film actor and composer. He was awarded the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.	Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He got the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, for his published work in English. He was awarded the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.	Sagarika Ghose is an Indian journalist, news anchor and author. She was the deputy editor and a prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American author and poet. She has won the American Book Award and is a professor at the University of Houston	Sourav Kothari is Work Rank 2 billiards player, and winner of the Asia Championship. He has also been awarded the Arjuna Award	Charles David Bailyn is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University and inaugural dean of faculty at Yale-NUS College. He is the winner of the Bruno Rossi Prize for his research on the masses of black holes.
Somak Raychaudhury is an Indian astrophysicist. He is the Director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics	Anshul Tewari is an Ashoka Fellow and the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of YouthKiAwaaz.com (YKA), which is India's largest online platform for young people to express themselves on issues of importance.	Divyanshu Damani is a vlogger and influencer. He is the youngest talk show host in the country, of The Divyanshu Damani Talk Show. He is TEDx speaker and motivational speaker with a huge youth following.