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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Manager - Editorial & Agency

Hitesh is a postgraduate in Journalism and Mass Communications. She edits manuscripts, handles communications for Siyahi, and manages the content for Siyahi's website. Her articles have appeared in Platform, Outlook Hindi, DNA and Hardnews.

Manager - Editorial & Content

Meenakshi, a postgraduate in English Literature from the University of Delhi, handles the content for the company's marketing collaterals including brochures and press releases. She edits manuscripts and coordinates with the media during Siyahi's events.

Manager - Events

Aditi completed her PG in Event Management, Advertising and Media from Mumbai. She manages the logistics for all of Siyahi's events. She also coordinates the PR and does human resource management for Siyahi.