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

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

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

Saraswati Nandini Majumdar is the author of Banaras: Walks Through India Sacred City. She is associated with NIRMAN, an NGO that works for education and the arts (Nirman.info)

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

The Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari is the author of international bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow