authors

Soumya Mukerji is a transdisciplinary writer, editor and journalist. Her writing converges diverse interests: global culture and literature, nature, travel, arts, design and digital creativity, human experience and social issues. As a narrative journalist for over 16 years, Soumya’s work has appeared in prominent publications such as The Guardian, The Hindu Literary Review and Sunday […]

Deepa Bhasthi is a writer and translator working in Kannada and English. Her essays, criticisms, columns and reportage, mainly on literature, the visual arts and the politics of culture have been published in over forty national and international publications. Her translation of Jnanapitha awardee Dr Kota Shivarama Karanth’s Ade Ooru, Ade Mara was published as

Sadaf Hussain is the author of the Daastan-e-Dastarkhan and Desi Delicacies. He is a consultant chef in Delhi and was one of the top MasterChef India contestants in 2016. He likes to explore culture and community through food and his bylines can be explored on Mint Lounge, Indian Express, FiftyTwo, Quint and others. He likes

​Baran Farooqi is a professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia University. She is the acclaimed translator of The Colours of My Heart, a selection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Baran Farooqi was awarded the JCB Prize for Literature (2022) for The Paradise of Food, her English translation of Khalid Jawed’s book Ne’mat Khana.

​Khalid Jawed is one of the leading Urdu novelists today. He is the author of fifteen works of fiction and non-fiction, and is a recipient of the Katha Award, the Upendranath Ashk Award and the UP Urdu Academy Award. He is a professor at Jamia Millia Islamia University. Khalid Jawed was awarded the JCB Prize

Radhika Govindrajan teaches anthropology and international studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork on human-animal relationships, gender and sexuality, and social change in rural Uttarakhand for over a decade. She is the author of Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas, which was published by the University of Chicago

M Mukundan is one of the most reputed contemporary fiction writers in Kerala. He has to his credit nineteen novels and eight collections of short stories. His stories and novels have been translated into most of the major Indian languages, English and French. When he started writing his stories in the early sixties, Kerala’s political

Nandakumar K started his career as a sub-editor at Financial Express, followed by stints in international marketing and general management in India and abroad. Having travelled in over fifty countries, he claims he can speak enough German and French to save his life. Strangely, using a borrowed dictionary, his tryst with translation started with a

Monideepa Banerjie is a Kolkata-based journalist reporting on contemporary politics in West Bengal, in fact, the most familiar face of Kolkata on national TV, having covered everything east for India’s premier news channel NDTV for the last twenty-eight years. In those twenty-eight years, she has seen the dramatic fall of the Communists and the meteoric