Noor Zaheer is president of the National Federation of Indian Women and Indian Peoples Theatre Association. She is the author of My God is a Woman and Denied by Allah

Aju John heads content and learning at myLaw

Bruce Gilley is professor, department of political science, at Portland State University

Venkat Dhulipala is a historian and the author of Creating A New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India (Cambridge University Press)

Hindol Sengupta is the author of, among other titles, Being Hindu

Stephen Owen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Sheldon Pollock is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University