Rajdeep Sardesai, 59, is an award winning senior journalist, author, TV news presenter. His latest book 2019: How Modi won India is a national bestseller as was his previous book 2014: The Election that changed India which has been translated into half a dozen languages. His book Democracy’s Eleven: The Great Story of Indian Cricket was shortlisted by MCC Lords as cricket book of the year in 2017-18.
Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer who is currently Distinguished University Professor at Krea University. His books include a pioneering environmental history – The Unquiet Woods, an award-winning social history of cricket – A Corner of a Foreign Field, and a widely acclaimed history of his country – India after Gandhi