Chanda Chaudhary is a blogger, decor stylist and an avid traveller

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

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

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

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

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

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

Farrukh Dhondy is an author, playwright and screenwriter

Ananth Padmanabhan is a fellow at Carnegie India, working at the intersection of law, technology and policy. These are his personal views and do not reflect the institution’s position on this subject

Raza Rumi is editor of the Pakistani newspaper Daily Times. He teaches at Cornell University and Ithaca College. He is the author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveller and The Fractious Path: Pakistan’s Democratic Transition

Vishwajyoti Ghosh is the author of the graphic novel Delhi Calm (2010) and curated This Side That Side: Restorying Partition, an anthology of graphic narratives on Partition

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