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

Mohit Hira is the Chief Executive & Publisher, Open magazine

Manjula Padmanabhan is an author and artist

Mitali Parekh is a Mumbai-based journalist

Jaithirth Rao is an entrepreneur and a social commentator

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

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

Ambika Kamath is a behavioural ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara