Devdutt Pattnaik is the author of 25 books on mythology

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

Anam Zakaria is the author of 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India; Between the Great Divide: A Journey into Pakistan-administered Kashmir; and The Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians

Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor at Ashoka University, has a chapter devoted to the Badrinath agitation in her just published book, Archaeology and The Public Purpose

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