Aditi Aggrawal is a visual artist based in Noida. She holds M.F.A. (2013) and B.F.A. (2010) in Painting from College Of Art, University of Delhi, New Delhi. She is currently pursuing a PhD from the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, University of Delhi. She works as an Assistant Professor (Visiting Faculty) at the Painting Department, College of Art, New Delhi.

Amitesh Grover (b.1980) is a performer, director, writer, and curator based in New Delhi, India. His works move beyond theatre, into visual arts, films, photography, installations, publishing, and processes, and are shown internationally in theatres, galleries, public spaces, and on the internet.

Aniruddha Acharya writes short stories, poems and essays in Marathi. He has published his poetry in Deepavali, Kavita-Rati, Chaturanga, Varnmudra and other journals. Also, he is trained in film editing and screen-play writing. 

Anuja Ghosalkar is a Bangalore based artist. Her Documentary theatre company, Drama Queen focusses on personal histories and archives to extend the idea of theatre to create audacious work. In the past, Anuja has worked at India Foundation for the Arts, Experimenta, in curating and teaching cinema, & as a researcher with the University of Westminster.

Anupam is a propagandist artist from India. He has been involved in different people struggles concerning race, caste, class and gender, and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. Currently, Anupam is pursuing his second M.A. in Fine Art from De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K., supported by Charles Wallace Long term Scholarship.

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 is graduated from Cummins College of Engineering for Women with a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications

Ashutosh Potdar is a scholar, translator and the creative writer writing in Marathi and English. He is has published two volumes of his plays. He works at FLAME University, Pune.

Avijna Bhattacharya is currently involved with Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi as the Associate Curator. Her engagement includes art writing and working closely with the museum’s collection.

Datta Patil is a Marathi playwright. He has received several awards such as Maharashtra Foundation (U.S.A.) Award,  MaTa Sanman, Chaitrasanman, Mumbai, Padmashree Vikhe Patil Award and Mohan Wagh Award given by Marathi Natyanirmata Sangh.

Dinkar Manwar is an award-winning poet and a painter. He has published three collections of his poetry namely Drishya Naslelya Drushyat, Ajunahi Barach Kaahi and Panyaranya. Also, he co-edits a Marathi journal Atirikt.

Frida Robles is an artist and curator. Her practice focuses on street-based knowledge, interrelatedness and the subversive power of imagination. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with support from the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation. 

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

Jayeti Bhattacharya is a visual artist based in Kolkata. She has completed B.F.A. (Painting) from Rabindra Bharati University and M.F.A. (Painting) from Kalabhavan, Santiniketan. 

Kai Tuchmann is a theatre maker based in Beijing and Berlin. His stagings and dramaturgies were invited to several international theatre festivals. Kai is a member of the Dramaturgy Faculty at China’s Central Academy of Drama and of the Performing Arts Management Faculty at Frankfurt’s University of Music and Performing Arts. He is also a Board Member of the Marvin Carlson Theatre Center in Shanghai and New York.

Kunal Purohit is a journalist for over 12 years now and has worked for publications like the Hindustan Times, The Daily News and Analysis and the Free Press Journal. Kunal is the recipient of Ramnath Goenka Award For Excellence in Journalism, the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting as well as the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitive Reporting.

Lasse Mouritzen is an urbanist, art-based researcher and curator based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His work and interest evolves around participatory processes in art, city-making and performative citizenship.

Laxmipriya Panigrahi is a visual artist based in New Delhi. She has completed B.V.A. (Painting) from Balasore Art and Crafts College, Balasore, Odisha (2012) and M.V.A. (Painting) Utkal University of Culture, Odisha (2015).

Madhura Joshi is a sociologist. She has completed her MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

Manasi Jog has trained under the guidance of Guru Sucheta Bhide Chaphekar in Bharatnatyam. She has completed her masters in Indology. Currently, Manasi is studying at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics.

Milind Bokil is a Sociologist and Marathi writer from Pune.  He has been writing fiction and non-fiction and has published more than twenty books comprising short story volumes, novels, travelogues and socio-anthropological studies. National award-winning film ‘Shala’ was based on his novel of the same name and was translated into English and published by HarperCollins India Ltd in 2014.

Naman Ahuja is an art historian and curator based in New Delhi. He is Professor of Art History at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal University, New Delhi.

Noopur Desai is an art writer and researcher writing in Marathi and English. She works at the Asia Art Archive in India and lives in New Delhi. 

Piyush Mishra is a well-known film and theatre actor, theatre director, poet, music director, and scriptwriter based in Mumbai. He has staged his musical play Gagan Damama Bajyo across India since its first performance in Delhi in 1994.

Prasanta Ghosh is a visual artist based in Kolkata. He has completed his B.F.A. from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata and M.V.A. (Painting) from M.S. University Baroda.

Preeti Pansare is a visiting faculty at Sir J.J. College of Architecture. She graduated from  Pillai’s College of Architecture and acquired her M.Arch. in Design from the University of  Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and a P.G. Diploma in Indian Aesthetics from Jnanapravaha, Mumbai. She is also a self-trained amateur artist and an avid photographer.

Rhea Nath is a graduate student of Media Practice at the University of Sydney. Her work has previously featured in The Junction, scroll.in, Hakara Journal, and Cogito – The Literary Journal, amongst others. 

Sahil Kalloli is a writer, social activist and a web developer. He studies social media, free software movement and net-neutrality. Also, he is an active member of Pratyay, Kolhapur.

Sagar Kamble is a faculty of Political Science at S P College, Pune. 

Sanjeev Sethi is a widely published poet. He has more than 1200 poems printed or posted in venues around the world. Wrappings in Bespoke is winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press U.K. It is his fourth book that will be issued in 2020. He lives in Mumbai, India.

Sarim Mehmood is a poet and prose writer from Lahore, Pakistan. He is an alumnus of International Writing Program Summer Institute 2019.

Shweta Deshmukh is a resource person in Political Science, is engaged in the translation of academic writings. 

Suyashi Smridhi is an aspiring writer and journalist from Patna. She has published her writings on the platforms like The Medley, sbcltr.in, Coldnoon- International Journal of Travel Writing and Travelling Cultures amongst others. She is an alumnus of the Summer Institute, University of Iowa, a two-week creative writing cum cultural exchange program between India, Pakistan and the U.S.

Tapan Khopkar obtained a Doctorate in Economics of Information from the University of Michigan. While he is a practising Data Scientist, understanding human behaviour remains his primary passion.

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Cover Images: Anupam, Amitesh Grover and Aditi Aggrawal

Section Images: Jayeti Bhattacharya, Anupam, Amitesh Grover, Laxmipriya Panigrahi, Aditi Aggrawal and Jr Korpa.