Issues That Will Decide the Elections

Sugata Srinivasaraju is a bilingual journalist, author and columnist. He has editorially led some of the leading print, television and digital news organisations in the last decade. His most recent book is Furrows in a Field: The Unexplored Life of HD Deve Gowda (Vintage, Penguin).

Chandan Gowda is Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. His areas of research include Indian political thought and modern Kannada literature and cinema. Besides academic publications, he has translated Kannada fiction and non-fiction into English. He has compiled and edited The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader and A Life in the World, a book of autobiographical interviews he did with UR Ananthamurthy. At present, he is completing a book on the cultural politics of development in the old Mysore and co-translating and editing Daredevil Mustafa, a book of short stories by the Kannada writer, Purnachandra Tejasvi. He is also a columnist with Deccan Herald.

Asha Krishnaswamy is a media veteran, an academic and the former head of political reporting at Deccan Herald. She has been covering Karnataka politics for several decades.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed is an award-winning journalist with Frontline newsmagazine and is based in Bengaluru. His article on Syed Ahmed Esar published in Frontline magazine is available here.