A three-member team of interlocutors on Kashmir led by renowned journalist Dileep Padgaonkar will start a sustained uninterrupted dialogue with the people of Jammu and Kashmir from today. The team will meet the Home Minister P Chidambaram to be briefed on the mandate that the group would be pursuing. Central Information Commissioner M M Ansari and academic Prof Radha Kumar are other two members of the team. Mr Padgaonkar said, they are going to address the entire range of issues with the people of Jammu and Kashmir and diffrenet shades of political opinion. He said, if a political issue is brought to the table, the group will not shy away from discussing it. The panel came in for criticism from Kashmiri separatist, suggesting the absence of a politician in the panel indicated the non-serious approach of the government. Mr Padgaonkar, however made it clear that criticism has in no way disheartened the group. He also added that their terms of reference did not restrict what they discuss. The panel will submit its report to the Centre within a year. The interlocutors will be in Jammu and Kashmir for one week each month. As part of the eight-point peace package for Kashmir, the Centre on October 13 finalised the names of the three interlocutors to hold a renewed dialogue with separatist leaders in the trouble-torn Valley, on the boil for the past few months, and asked the people of Kashmir to engage with them. Mr Padgaonkar was member of the Kashmir Committee led by eminent lawyer and now Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ram Jethmalani. Radha Kumar, who heads the Nelson Mandela Institute of Peace in Jamia Millia Islamia, was engaged in back-channel discussions with 'moderate' Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani. She was in the valley recently and had visited Mr Geelani at a hospital in Srinagar where he was undergoing treatment. Ansari was a professor and director at the Hamdard University before becoming the Information Commissioner.