Sanjay Kumar is a professor and the director of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. These are his personal views

Achal Dhruva is a travel enthusiast and freelance writer based in Mumbai

Adoor Gopalakrishnan is India’s foremost internationally acclaimed filmmaker who was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2004 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2006

Nalini R Mohanty is director, Jagran Institute of Management & Mass Communication, Noida. He was elected president of JNU Students’ Union in 1982-3 on a Students for Democratic Socialism platform

Ritesh Uttamchandani is a Mumbai-based freelance photographer

Rahul Bhattacharya is the author of Pundits from Pakistan and The Sly Company of People Who Care

Karan Mahajan is a novelist and essayist. His novel The Association of Small Bombs was nominated for National Book Award, 2016