Ajay Sharma is a visual artist based in Baroda, Gujarat. Recipient of Lalit Kala Akademi scholarships, Ajay has exhibited his works in several solo and group exhibitions across India.

Annika Taneja is a freelance editor, writer and translator based out of New Delhi. She has completed an MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture from the University of St Andrews, with a special focus on Utopian Studies and Postcolonial Theory.

Anirudh Deshpande is Associate Professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi. He has several academic papers, commentaries, reviews and articles to his credit. He has been a Nehru Fellow, UGC Fellow and ICHR Fellow in the past. He is also a published fiction writer.

Anuj Deshpande is a writer and translator who is also  actively engaged in theatre in Pune.

Aparna Andhare is an art historian with a book-buying problem. A Bombay girl, Aparna is currently living in Jaipur. She is a curator at the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace Jaipur.

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

Asijit Datta 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.

Diksha Dhar is an English Studies Scholar with a special interest in South Asian Urban Visual Cultures. Diksha received the Fulbright Nehru Doctoral and Professional Fellowship 2015-2016, the Indian Foundation of the Arts Archival and Museum Fellowship 2018-2019, and the SAFAR Urban Studies Fellowship 2020-2021. At present, she is an Assistant Professor of English at KL University, Hyderabad. 

Dhruvi Acharya is a visual artist based in Mumbai. She was awarded the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Kiran Puraskar in 2006, featured on the cover of India Today in 2005 and was the recipient of the FICCI Young Woman Achievers award in 2013. Dhruvi has exhibited her work through different galleries in the USA, Europe and India. 

Farhana Latief is a doctoral candidate at JNU, New Delhi. She has been working in the fields of history and forms of systems of governance, political and institutional economics, and rights of the people. An independent law professional, Latief’s interests and involvement include law and development, question of access to justice and human rights and criminal justice system.

Joydip Sengupta is an award-winning visual artist. He has exhibited extensively both in India and abroad. Most recently he has been awarded The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in August 2020.  For more details please refer to https://joydip.portfoliobox.net/. He has been teaching as  Assistant Professor at The School of Fine Arts, Amity University, Kolkata. 

Kanishka Sen holds a PhD in Latin American literature from Arizona State University and is Associate Professor of Spanish. Kanishka is a member of the CLAC (Cultures and Languages across the Curriculum) Consortium.

Mangesh Narayanrao Kale is a poet, painter, publisher and visual arts critic. He has published five collections of poetry. He has received several awards for poetry-writing and publishing a literary journal, Khel. Kale’s painting exhibitions are held regularly all over India.

Maya Nirmala is a social development professional. She conducts research in the area of human development, design interventions and undertakes evaluations for the government as well as non-government initiatives. She has published her writing in Marathi journals like Mukta Shabd and Parivartanacha Watsaru.

Neeraja is a widely published poet, translator, short-story writer and editor. She has received several awards including Maharashtra Foundation’s award, Keshavrao Kothavale Award and Priy G A Award. Currently, she is the Vice-President of Aantarbharati Anuvaad Suvidha Kendra. 

Nobina Gupta is the founder-director of Disappearing Dialogues Collective. As an artist and curator, Nobina has initiated interdisciplinary interactions, engaged different communities, institutions, social groups and generations through interactive artworks, heritage mapping, research, documentation and collaborative activities on conservation of cultural, social and environmental losses, sediments and memories intrinsic to a city or a region.

Pooja Ugrani is an architect by education, a teacher by profession, a poet by whim, and an artist by choice. She considers the cities of Mumbai and Bangalore her twin homes and spends time jumping between them, writing about the small everyday things in life that intrigue and engage her.

Reyazul Haque is a fellow at the  German public research institute, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient and a cinema researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin. He has been working on the social systems and anti-caste movements in India. His area of interests are literature, cinema, visual arts, theatre and philosophy. Previously he has worked as a journalist with  Tehelka, and as an editor at Penguin Random House and Juggernaut Books.

Satish Tandale has completed an MA in English Literature from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. He is  actively engaged with Marathi and Hindi theatre as a writer and actor. 

Shubhangi Chetan is a fine artist, illustrator and a short-story writer.

Shruti Sareen is a published poet and writer based in Delhi. Her MPhil looks at the depiction of urban spaces and her PhD is on the twenty-first century feminist poetry. She also teaches whenever she manages to find a job. She is currently seeking publishers for her novel and her debut poetry collection. She blogs at www.shrutanne-heartstrings.blogspot.com.

Suchita Parikh-Mundul has published her poems in Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature, Muse India and Cerebration. A debut collection of her poems, Liquid Apnea was published by Sampark, Kolkata in 2005. Currently, Suchita is completing a second book of poetry while freelancing.

Sukanya Deb has a BA in Art History with English Literature from the University of Buckingham, and an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, London. She is a Programme Manager at the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), New Delhi.

Tony Xavier found his vocation as a poet in the year 2010 and has completed a cycle of poems titled, Songs From a Calling. An engineer and a business management graduate by education, Tony eschewed both for a career in teaching. He currently heads the learning function of a test-prep firm based in  Mumbai and has performed at spoken-word events in the city.

Tulika Varma is a writer based in Pondicherry.

Vasvi Oza is a visual artist, researcher and educator based in Bangalore. She teaches at the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Her practice includes drawing, translating, zine-making, self-publishing, comics-making and occasional writing. 

Yashasvi Gaur is a research scholar at Jadavpur University in Kolkata. She writes about simple arenas of life and how it unfolds into myriad philosophies. Her works have been featured with publishers and journals like Half Baked Beans and Inverse. Apart from this, she has also performed and recited at various seminars. 

Yogesh Kurhade is an architect based in Pune. He works with a design firm called ‘Shoonya’. 

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Section Images: Ajay Sharma, Benitha Perciyal, Joydip Sengupta, Nobina Gupta, and Vasvi Oza.