CEO
Mita Kapur is a freelance journalist regularly featured in many newspapers and magazines. She covers social and developmental issues along with travel, food and lifestyle humor stories. She has co-directed and directed the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2006 and 2007. She is the founder and CEO of Siyahi, a literary consultancy where she doubles up as a literary agent along with conceptualizing and directing literary events. Her first book, The F-Word is being published by HarperCollins.
Namita Gokhale
Founder Director
Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher and Co-Director for the Jaipur Literature Festival. Her books include Paro: Dreams of Passion, Gods, Graves, and Grandmother, A Himalayan Love Story, Mountain Echoes – Reminiscences of Kumaoni Women, The Book of Shadows, The Book of Shiva, Shakuntala: The Play of Memory and The Puffin Mahabharata among others. Founder Director for Siyahi’s Translating Bharat conferences, Namita is the Director of the Mountain Echoes literary festival.
Neeta Gupta
Director – Languages
Neeta Gupta is a publisher at Yatra Books. Besides translating and contributing to various magazines, she has been the editor of Bhartiya Anuvad Parishad’s quarterly journal on translation, Anuvaad. Yatra Books has been coordinating the Indian Languages Publishing Programme of Penguin Books India. They have published over a two hundred books in Hindi, Urdu and Marathi.
Jaya Bhattacharji
Literary Director
Jaya Bhattacharji is an Editorial Consultant for Puffin. She has also worked as the Commissioning Editor and Marketing, Promotions and Publicity Director for Zubaan. She has also been a Guest Editor for Folklife, a quarterly for the National Folklore Centre as well as the Children and Young Adult Books Special of The Book Review.
Pramod Kumar KG
Literary Director
Pramod Kumar KG was the Director of the first Jaipur Literature Festival in 2006. He was the Associate Director of the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi. He is the Founder Director of the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing, Jaipur and Curator for the City Palace Museum, Udaipur. He is the Founder of Eka, Cultural Resources & Research. Pramod is also the Director for the Mountain Echoes literary festival.
Pranav Capila
Consulting Editor
Pranav has created and commissioned content exploring various genres (including art, literature, film, photography, lifestyle, technology, wildlife and travel) for print, multimedia and online publications for over fourteen years. He was founding executive editor of the premium men’s lifestyle magazine ‘M’, and previously worked with the World Wide Fund for Nature, The British Council’s Cultural Affairs Unit and PC World (India). He is currently an independent editorial consultant and writer.
Neerja Misra
Literary Director
Neerja Misra, a Fulbright Fellow, has been Head of the Department of English and Vice-Principal, Kanoria College, Jaipur. Currently, she is involved with Bodh, an NGO working for primary education. She has translated both prose and poetry from Hindi and Rajasthani and has edited a number of publications.
Aditi Goyal
Manager – Events
Aditi completed her PG in Event Management Advertising and Media from National Institute of Event Management, Mumbai. She has been a part of Siyahi since its inception and handles logistics for Siyahi events. She also manages Public Relations and Human Resource for the organization. Aditi is a keen photographer and an ardent traveler.
Ruchi Kaul
Creative Communication Manager
Ruchi Kaul has a B.Tech degree from Rajasthan Technical University. At Siyahi, she manages all administrative duties and communication matters, website content development and management. She has a keen interest in music and poetry. She dabbles a bit with poetry writing both in Hindi and English.
Mihir Manker
Tech. & Advertising Consultant
Yogesh Narula
Senior Consultant (Public Relations)
