Amit Kumar Vishwakarma is an art historian. He has an MFA in Art History and Visual Studies from Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, and a BVA in Painting from College of Fine Arts and Crafts, University of Lucknow. His interest lies in the smallness of things, which include portraits, sketches, and other things from his surroundings.

Antara Mukherjee is a writer from India. Her short stories and poems have appeared in Kitaab, Muse India, Sahitya Akademi, The Alipore Post, Pine Cone Review, Borderless Journal, and Yearbook of Indian Poetry 2021 among others. In 2020 her short story won the first spot in the ‘All India Literature Competition,’ hosted by Anthelion School of Arts. She has co-written a play that premiered at the Bangalore International Centre in 2022.

Aparna Nori is a photo based artist living between Singapore and Bangalore, India. Her work is rooted in personal memory, identity and experiences, with her explorations taking form and shape through photographic interventions and narratives. She practices diverse forms of expression with digital and analogue images, alternative photographic processes, moving images, and bookmaking.

Ashlesha Gore is a published Marathi translator based in Pune. She loves to translate fiction. She is also interested in languages, reading, and theatre.

Ashutosh Potdar is a poet, playwright and fiction-writer. He works at FLAME University, Pune.

Bhaswati Ghosh writes and translates fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her first book of fiction is Victory Colony, 1950. Her first work of translation from Bengali to English is My Days with Ramkinkar Baij. Her writing has appeared in several literary journals, including Literary Shanghai, HELD, Cargo Literary, as well as in The Indian Express, Scroll, The Wire, and Dhaka Tribune. Bhaswati lives in Ontario, Canada, and is currently working on a nonfiction book on New Delhi, India.

C P Deshpande is a 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.

Dr Chaitanya Shinkhede is currently working as Assistant Professor at the School of Media and Communications at MIT World Peace University, Pune. His research focuses on the Sustainability of Rural Community Radio in Maharashtra. In addition, he has done a short course in Film Editing from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and loves to write about films and television series.

Dr Lee Campbell is an artist, poet, experimental filmmaker, writer, curator, and Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London. His experimental performance poetry films have been selected for many international film festivals since 2019. He had a solo exhibition of his poetry films, See Me, in July 2022 at the Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, USA.

Dr Prasenjit Panda has been working as an Assistant Professor in the department of English & Foreign Languages at Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh). He has published several articles in journals and written chapters for edited books. Dr Panda has also presented papers at national and international conferences.

Eva Holts was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine, and currently lives and works in Kyiv. She is a historian by training and graduated from the Conceptual Course and Fine Art Photography at MYPH school in 2020. Her works are at view at The Pinna Art Gallery.

Himanshu Smart is a playwright, poet and writes scholarly articles in Marathi. He teaches drama at Bhalji Pendharkar Kala Academy and is a visiting faculty at Lalit Kala Kendra, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune.

Ketaki Sarpotdar graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from L.S.Raheja School of Art, Mumbai in 2014, and a Post Diploma in Visual Arts from  M.S. University, Baroda in 2018. Her exhibitions include an online solo show titled “Where Ignorance Is Bliss” at Latitude28 and TAP India (2020), and “Matti Khalli”, a solo show at M S University Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda (2019).

Malhar Dandge is a UG 1 student at Mahavir College, Kolhapur. He participates in theatre workshops and various theatre-related activities at Bhalji Pendharkar Kala Academy in Kolhapur.

Nikhil Baisane is researching the ‘Hypermasculinity and Hindu Myths: Interpretations’ at IISER Bhopal.

Priyanka Verma has been working as an Assistant Professor at the department of English, Hansraj College, University of Delhi since 2007. Her areas of interest are Dalit studies, Gender studies, Culture and Family Studies, and Indian Writing in English.

Rahee Dahake has been working in the field of education for the past twenty-five years. She writes poetry in English and Marathi and translates into both languages.

Rakhi Dalal writes from a small city in Haryana. Her work has appeared in various literary magazines and journals including nether Quarterly, Kitaab, Aainanagar and Borderless Journal. Her essay on the theme of Memories of Partition, invited by Bound India and judged by Aanchal Malhotra, made it to the list of winning pieces.

Saumya Malviya is a Social Anthropologist currently working as Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. He earned his doctoral degree from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He is also a published poet in Hindi, as well as regularly translates fiction and poetry from Hindi/Urdu to English. He is currently working on an anthropological biography of Hindi poet Gajānan Mādhav Muktibodh and translating his selected writings into English. His poetry collection titled Ghar Ek Nāmumkin Jagah Hai has been published from Hind-Yugm Prakāshan Delhi in 2021.

Sisodhara Syangbo teaches at the Department of English, Prasannadeb Women’s College, Jalpaiguri. Her research interests are Gender Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Trauma/Memory Studies and Culture Studies. She has presented papers at many national and international seminars and published in various literary journals that are associated with her areas of interest. At present, she is pursuing her doctoral research on Sri Lankan literature at Raiganj University, West Bengal.

Suchita Khallalis a Nanded (Maharashtra) based Education Development Officer. She has published three collections of poetry and is the recipient of literary awards for her writing.

Unmisha Misra is an early career academic and artist exploring the fields of queer and crip creation. Their art features abstract representations of the lived realities of trans queer experiences, largely through the medium of collage that is at once fragmentary and assimilatory.

Vignesh G. is an art practitioner and curator. He holds a Master’s degree in Art History and Visual Studies from the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, and a BFA in Painting from KEN School of Art, Bangalore. His areas of interest lie in the idea of land, architecture, body, and space and he expresses these through Digital Visual Media like Photography and Video Art. Having more than five years of experience in art curation and art writing, he independently curated a multidisciplinary art show Land-Spaces in July 2019 at Art Houz Gallery, Chennai. He is currently working as a curator at Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad.

Guest Editor: Purvi Rajpuria is a freelance writer and illustrator from Kolkata. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Illustration and Visual Culture at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. 

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