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

Sukkriti Nath is an intern at Open Magazine

Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University

Krishna Bose, an academic and writer, is a former member of the Lok Sabha, elected thrice from Greater Kolkata’s Jadavpur constituency

Parul Sharma, a New Delhi-based fine art photographer, took over 3,000 photographs of Delhi under lockdown for a black-and-white photo documentary book to be published by Roli Books in August

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

AK Verma is director, Centre for the Study of Society and Politics, Kanpur

Ramachandra Guha is a historian, environmentalist and public intellectual