Anoop Mahajan is an atmospheric chemist at the Centre for Climate Change Research, Pune

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

Mahesh Rangarajan teaches History and Environmental Studies at Ashoka University

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

Abhishek Poddar is the founder-trustee of the Museum of Art & Photography, Bengaluru

Shyam Benegal is a filmmaker and screenwriter who was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1991 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2005

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