The author is electronics & IT secretary, Government of Odisha

Gopalkrishna Gandhi, a former diplomat and governor, is the son of Devadas Gandhi and the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi

Sandeep Balakrishna is founder and chief editor of The Dharma Dispatch. He is the author of, among other titles, Tipu Sultan: the Tyrant of Mysore and Invaders and Infidels: From Sindh to Delhi: The 500-Year Journey of Islamic Invasions. He has also translated SL Bhyrappa’s Aavarana from Kannada to English

Jishnu Das is a professor at Georgetown University, US, and a visiting senior fellow at Centre for Policy Research, Delhi

Shyam Saran is a former Foreign Secretary of India

The author is a Delhi-based queer writer and freelance journalist

Ravinder Kaur is an associate professor of modern South Asian studies at the University of Copenhagen

Sanjay Anandaram is the ambassador for iSPIRT Foundation and co-founder of NICEorg.in

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