Edition 08: काळं/पांढरं | B/W

Abhiram Bhadkamkar is an Indian film actor, director and writer. He has graduated from the National School of Drama with a specialisation in Acting. Among his several accolades are the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award bestowed by the President of India.

Ashlesha Gore is a published Marathi translator based in Pune. She loves to translate works of  fiction. She is also interested in languages, reading and theatre. Her four translated books have been published by Vishwakarma, Manjul, Westland and Yatra publications. She graduated from Cummins College of Engineering for Women with a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications.

Cham Pra Deshpande is critically acclaimed Marathi playwright and a thinker.  He has written more than 30 plays and a number of poems and essays, and has received several awards including R C Datar Award (Maharashtra Foundation) and Ram Ganesh Gadkari Award (Government of Maharashtra). His plays are regularly performed in Marathi and other Indian languages.

Digbijayee Khatua is a visual artist based in New Delhi. He has an MFA in Painting from College of Art, New Delhi and BVA in Painting from B K College of Art and Crafts, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. Khatua has participated in Piramal Art Residency (2016), Mumbai and the Kochi Muziris Binnale Post-Graduate Residency, Vagamo (2015). His work was exhibited through group shows including the 58th, 57th, 56th National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, and the Indo-Korean Young Artist Exhibition, Seoul, Korea (2016).

Jaya Modi and Annalisa Mansukhani work at the crossroads of graphic design and art history, with shared proclivities for visual culture, photographic practices, poetry, and evolutions in vocabularies of space, context and viewership. Rooted in a decade-long friendship, this collaboration is an inchoate move towards a more sustained interlacing of thought and conversation.

Jigisha Bhattacharya identifies as an aspiring artist, writer and activist located between Calcutta and New Delhi. She has completed her MPhil dissertation in Social Sciences from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta on the Early History of Photography.

Kanchan Gogate has been working with The Times of India and is currently pursuing her PhD from a research center affiliated to SPPU. Her research interests include spiritual literature and yoga philosophy.

Komal Gupta is a writer and poetess living in Gurugram, Haryana. She writes under the pen name of tejaswiniaura. She was shortlisted for the Orange Award for Poetry 2018-(Women’s Web). She is the winner of Mirakee- Microtale Contest, Theme-Time 2018 and many online contests on Fuzia. She is a published author of two poetry books, Verses of Time (2019) and Of Silhouette Words and Moonflowers (2017).

Kush Badhwar is a filmmaker interested in collaborative practice, improvised and informal political engagement and the ecology of sound and image across stretches of time.

Mekhala Chattopadhyay is a researcher in the department of English Literature at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her research focuses on the aspect of memory and its relation to culture and technology in the Indian context. Her academic interests fall mostly in the field of cultural studies, memory and trauma studies. Her poems and film reviews have appeared in Café Dissensus online magazine, and The Sunflower Collective.

Namdeo Gapate is Assistant Professor in Marathi at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

Naresh Dadhich Naresh Dadhich is a theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor and former Director of Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). He also held the M.A. Ansari Chair in Theoretical Physics at Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi during 2012-2016. Besides his scientific work, he attempts to engage in a dialogue on wider social issues.

Nilima Sheikh is a visual artist based in Baroda and has been engaging with traditional artforms extensively through her practice. Recently, her works were exhibited at documenta 14, Kassel, Germany (2017) and the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong (2018).

Noopur Desai is an art critic and researcher writing in Marathi and English. She is a doctoral student of visual arts studies. Currently, she is Researcher at the Asia Art Archive in India, New Delhi.

Özge Ersoy is Public Programmes Lead at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. She is also Managing Editor of m-est.org, an online publication conceived as an artist-centered initiative.

Priyanka Kapoor is a poet and a writer, dominantly of the surrealist genre. She recently finished her Masters in English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. She was shortlisted for R.L. Poetry award 2017.

Rangnath Pathare is a critically acclaimed Marathi writer. He is known for writing in different areas: fiction, criticism, and general writing on society and culture as a thinker. Pathare is the recipient of a number of awards including Sahitya Akademi award in 1999. He has retired as a professor of Physics from a college in Sangamner.

Renu Savant is a filmmaker graduated from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. She has won two National Awards for her films. Currently, she has been working on the third of a trilogy of personal and documentary films about the life and times of Mirya village in Kokan, Maharashtra.

Sarita Chouhan is an artist who works in various mediums like drawing, painting, photography and installation. She has participated in several national and international residencies and exhibitions.

Shaunak Mahbubani is a nomadic curator and primarily pursues projects under the series ‘Allies for the Uncertain Futures’. This exhibition series is focused on exploring the possibilities of socio-political, ecological and techno-evolutionary futures through the lens of non-duality.They have received exhibition grants from various international organisations and have curated exhibitions across India.

Sneha Ragavan is a Senior Researcher at Asia Art Archive in India and is based in New Delhi.

Shruti Sareen is a published poet and writer based in Delhi. Shehas submitted a PhD on twenty first century feminist poetry at the University of Delhi.

Steven Georgeis a theatre practitioner based in Delhi and is interested in experimental forms in performance. He completed his bachelors in English Literature from the University of Delhi and pursued Masters in Human Rights Duties & Education from Jamia Millia Islamia.

Sucheta Ghadge has completed her MFA in Printmaking from Sir J J School of Art, Mumbai. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan.

Sunil Tambe is a journalist writing in Marathi and English newspapers. He was Editor-Multimedia with Reuters Market Light. Tambe has published a book on the life and writings of Gabriel García Márquez and translated Ravish Kumar’s Free Voice into Marathi.

Tanushree Baijal lives and works in Delhi. She is fond of exploring poetry, prose and performance. Her work has appeared in The Bombay Review and Warehouse Zine.

Venu Parijat has completed her undergraduate and postgraduate courses in performing arts. She is a dancer, choreographer, curator, and arts manager living in the USA.

Yashwant Deshmukh is a visual artist based in Mumbai. He has participated in several national and international exhibitions.

Cover Images Digbijayee Khatua and Ozge Ersoy

Section Images Yashwant Deshmukh, Digbijayee Khatua, Ozge Ersoy, and Preksha Tater