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[green]Akshay Shelar[/green] is a freelance writer, film critic, and columnist. He has worked on weekly columns for renowned Marathi dailies such as Maharashtra Times and Aapla Mahanagar. He is currently associated with Indie Journal, an independent, bilingual online portal.
[green]Ankitha Rao[/green] is a postgraduate student in Public Policy at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She has received her undergraduate degree from FLAME University, Pune with a major in Literary and Cultural Studies.
[green]Asijit Datta[/green] has written and directed the critically acclaimed and award-winning plays – Chairs, My Life As I, The Fortress of Men, and Jantob. He also has multiple academic papers on Beckett, Disability Studies and Film Criticism published in reputed books, and national and international journals. Asijit is currently working as Assistant Professor of English at The Heritage College in Kolkata.
[green]Dr. Chayanika Saikia[/green] is a poet at heart, and a Geoscientist by profession. She lives with her family in Noida. Poetry is the prescribed tonic for her heart and an ‘after-dinner’ ritual. Her recent works have been published in New York Parrot, Indian Periodical, as well as different anthologies.
[green]D G Kaale[/green] is a award winning poet, editor and critic. The titles of some of his books are Aakal and Aranyahat.
[green]Ela Mate[/green] is a dentist. She writes for newspapers and participates in poetry recitations.
[green]Hemant Gavankar[/green] is a visual artist based in Mumbai. He completed his BFA (Drawing and Painting) and MFA (Portraiture) from Sir J J School of Art, Mumbai.
[green]Kanishka Sen[/green] is a writer, translator and Associate Professor of Spanish. He has published articles and reviews in several international journals. Her areas of interest are art and popular culture, translation, and Latin American culture, theatre and folklore.
[green]Krishnat Khot[/green] is an award-winning Marathi writer. He has five novels namely Gavthan, Roundala, Zad-Zibad, Dhoolmati, Ringaan to his credit. He is a teacher at a school in Kale in Kolhapur district.
[green]Manasi Marathe[/green] is a Mumbai-based corporate communications specialist. She is an avid reader and curious observer of socio-political issues and cultural activities.
[green]Megha Pansare[/green] works as Assistant Professor of Russian at the Department of Foreign Languages, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. Her published books include Seryozha, The Lower Depths, Soviet Russian Stories and many others. She is the recipient of national and international awards for her contribution in the field of Russian language and translation.
[green]Moutushi Chakraborty[/green] is a Kolkata-based artist and Visual-Art educationist. She is alumni of Wimbledon School of Art in London, Faculty of Fine Arts – M.S. University Baroda and Kalabhavan Visva-Bharati Santiniketan. Moutushi is the recipient of Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship, the Charles Wallace India Trust Award for Visual-Arts and the Lalit Kala Akademi Award.
[green]Najrin Islam[/green] is a researcher, playwright and a performer. She is a postgraduate from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).. Najrin was awarded the first Art Writers’ Award (2018-19) by TAKE On Art magazine and Swiss-Arts Council Pro Helvetia, which resulted in a residency and an associated publication titled Archive as Medium: Exploring the Performative Body.
[green]Noopur Desai[/green] is an art critic and writer writing in Marathi and English. Currently, she is a researcher at the Asia Art Archive in India and is based in New Delhi.
[green]Pinak Banik[/green] is an artist and researcher from West Bengal. His practice concerns Ambedkarism, anti-caste history, emancipatory movements, the institution of art, art and society, and cultural sociology.
[green]Prafull Shiledar[/green] is an award winning Marathi poet and translator. He has three poetry collections in Marathi, one in Hindi, four translated books and three edited books. He is a recipient of many prestigious awards for his poetry as well as translations including the Sahitya Akademi Award by National Academy of Letters, New Delhi. Presently he is Chief Editor of a Marathi literary journal Ýugavani.
[green]Priyanka Tupe[/green] is a freelance journalist. She works with a bilingual webportal, Indie Journal.
[green]Radha Chakravarty[/green] is a writer, critic and translator, living in India. Her poems have appeared in several poetry journals and magazines in India. She has edited several anthologies of South Asian writing. She teaches Comparative Literature & Translation Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi.
[green]Ranjit Pawar[/green] publishes blogs and podcasts on topics related to history and archaeology. He has completed his diploma in Archaeology from the Centre for Extra Mural Studies, University of Mumbai and holds a special interest in Ashokan history. He is based out of Mumbai and works with a global financial news and data provider.
[green]Sarover Zaidi[/green] has studied Philosophy and Social Anthropology. She works at the intersections of critical theory, anthropology, architecture and material culture studies. She has extensively worked on religious architecture, and urbanism in the city of Bombay and currently co-runs a site on writing the city called Chiragh Dilli (https://chiraghdilli.wordpress.com).
[green]Dr. Shubhangi Nitin Jarandikar[/green] is an assistant professor of English at Shri Venkatesh Mahavidyalaya, Ichalkaranji. After her Ph.D., Shubhangi completed a research project entitled, Translating Kabir: Strategies in Cultural Translation. Her research articles have been published in national and international journals. Shubhangi’s areas of interests are New Literatures in English, and Translation Studies.
[green]Udayan Vajpeyi[/green] an acclaimed Hindi writer. He has published five collections of poems including Kewal Kuchh Vakya, four collections of short-stories including Ret kinare ka ghar, three books of essays, a book on tribal painting and folk tales, Jangarh Kalam. He edits a journal on Arts, Literature and Civilization, Samaas, and lives and works in Bhopal.
[green]Upasana Das[/green] is a graduate student in the Department of English, Jadavpur University. She is a writer, artist, and a perpetually enthusiastic explorer. She is interested in visual and performance studies, and explores the interconnectivity between literature, film, theatre, comics and the other arts.
[green]Urvi Chheda[/green] is an artist and independent art researcher based in Mumbai. She has a graduate degree from Sir JJ School of Art (2010), and has pursued Post Graduate Diploma in Comparative Mythology from Mumbai University.
[green]Vidur Sethi[/green] is an artist processing deviant imaginations which inhabit the spaces between art criticism, intimacies in performance, and literary arts. He is a postgraduate in Literature from School of Letters at Ambedkar University Delhi. Vidur creates as well as curates the podcasts for art dose (artdose.in). Currently, he is pursuing theatre making and acting at Drama School, Mumbai.
[green]Yogesh Ramkrishna[/green] is a visual artist living in Vadodara. His works have been part of several curatorial projects and exhibitions. Yogesh has participated in national and international art residencies in Tehran, Dublin, Mumbai, New Delhi and Goa.
[green]Editorial Assistant[/green]: Purvi Rajpuria is a writer, illustrator, and graphic designer. She has a BA in Literary and Cultural Studies from FLAME University, Pune.
[green]Proofreading and copyediting:[/green] Anita Bhalekar, Anuj Deshpande, Brishti Modak, Hrishikesh Palande, Indu MG, Sharnitha Davmani, Vidula Sonagra, Vinaya Malati Hari, Yvonne Vaz.
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