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

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

Nalin Mehta is a political scientist and journalist

Dr MV Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Maalan Narayanan is a Chennai-based journalist

Mohit Hira is the Chief Executive & Publisher, Open magazine

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

Mahesh Rangarajan teaches History and Environmental Studies at Ashoka University