Panelists: Prof. Achin Vanaik, writer and social activist, former Professor, University of Delhi and Delhi-based Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, and author of The Painful Transition: Bourgeois Democracy in India and The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism; and Prof. P.R. Kumaraswamy, Chairperson, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair: Omair Ahmad, Managing Editor for South Asia, The Third Pole; a political analyst and journalist, with a particular focus on the Himalayan region, and author of The Kingdom at the Centre of the World: Journeys into Bhutan and Jimmy the Terrorist