Devdutt Pattanaik is the author and illustrator of Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata

Shonaleeka Kaul is associate professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Siddhanth Aney is a freelance sports journalist

Osama Manzar is founder-director of Digital Empowerment Foundation

David Gilmour is a British historian and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature

The author is the Maulana Azad National Professor at the Indian Council Of Social Science Research and founder of Manushi, a human rights organisation

David Devadas is the author of The Generation of Rage in Kashmir

R. Balashankar is a political analyst and former editor of the Organiser