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

Mahesh Rangarajan teaches History and Environmental Studies at Ashoka University

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

Sukkriti Nath is an intern at Open Magazine

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

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

Doniger is an author and Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago, US

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

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