Ibu Sanjeeb Garg is a Delhi-based analyst of policy issues in the Northeast. These are his personal views

Raman Khanna is a member of the National Leadership Council of the Hindu American Foundation. The opinions expressed below are his own

Matthew J Kuiper is a historian and researcher at the Religious Studies Department of Missouri State University, USA

Amit Gurbaxani is the editor-in-chief and founder of thedailypao.com

Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times

Shweta Taneja is a fantasy author. Her latest novel is The Matsya Curse, ‘an Anantya Tantrist Mystery’

Pranjul Bhandari is Chief India Economist, HSBC and Rohit Lamba is an assistant professor of Economics at Pennsylvania State University

Olivier Roy is one of the world’s foremost scholars of political Islam and is the author of Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State

Satvik Varma (L) and Vikrant Pachnanda are lawyers based in Delhi

K Kannan is a former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court

Yusuf Anis Ahmad Ansari, the author of two books, is currently completing a biography of Akbar. He is a scholar of Islamic History

Radhika Oberoi is a Delhi-based journalist