Ajay Kumar is the author of the chapbook balancing acts (Yavanika Press, 2023). His works have appeared in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Usawa, ASAP Art, gulmohur, and The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English, among others. He received the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize in 2024 and was twice longlisted for the Toto Funds the Arts Award. He lives in Chennai, India. His published work can be found here

Akash Bharadwaj is a researcher based in New Delhi and Patna. His work explores the histories of collecting and exhibition-making, and how these practices shape our notions of place, identity and belonging within regional, national and global contexts.

Aranya Padil is a poet, and writer-curator currently based in Delhi, a place to which he doesn't belong. His debut collection of poetry “the map is not the territory” was launched, with Copper Coin, in October 2025. He is the editor of Poetly, a newsletter that curates Indian and international poetry, along with commentaries that contextualise the works within contemporary socio-cultural discourses and artistic practice. He is the founding editor of ArteSpace, an E-Journal of the Arts, set up in partnership with Gallery Espace.

Arushi Vats is a doctoral researcher pursuing a PhD in the History of Art, at the University of Cambridge, and an Associate Lecturer at the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. She is the recipient of the Momus - Eyebeam Critical Writing Fellowship 2021 and the Art Scribes Award 2021. She is the co-editor of the volume Imaginable Worlds: Art, Crisis and Global Futures published by University of Chicago Press (2023), and has published extensively in exhibition catalogues, art publications, and literary journals.

Dr. Avani Tandon Vieira is a writer, researcher, and curator. Her practice is concerned with the intersection of artistic production and spatial politics, addressed through an attention to cultures of self organising. She holds a PhD in Criticism and Culture from the University of Cambridge and a master’s in World Literatures from the University of Oxford.

Handloom Futures is a research collective that engages with matters of craft and artisanal knowledge practices. The collective consists of researchers from various backgrounds who bring their diverse expertise to advance a nuanced understanding of the historical and contemporary relations between society and technology.

Imran Ali Khan is a writer who doesn’t write enough, a gardener who doesn’t garden enough. He spends his time walking and dreaming. He lives in Goa.

Kamayani Sharma is a writer, researcher, and podcaster with a focus on visual art, culture, and media. She produces Sharjah Art Foundation’s audio programme and is the creator and host of Artalaap, South Asia’s first independent visual culture podcast. Her critical and creative writing appears in publications worldwide and has been recognised by national and international awards.

Lina Vincent is an independent art historian and curator with two decades experience in arts management. Through her consultancy LVAC, she focuses on research and programming in the areas of arts education, printmaking history and practice, the documentation of living traditions, and environmental consciousness in the arts.

Ravikumar Kashi is a contemporary Indian artist, writer and educator, known for his interdisciplinary approach to art. Kashi blends intellectual rigor with artistic practice, and he employs diverse mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, with a notable emphasis on paper.

Roma Chatterji is a visiting professor at the Sociology Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University. She is the author of Writing Identities: Folklore and the Performing Arts of Purulia(2009), Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Imagination in India (2012, 2016) and Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India (2020).

Sandra Elizabeth is a PhD scholar in the department of Sociology, at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR. Her research explores environmental anthropology; She is interested in “Watery Environments” — wetlands, swamps and deltas and the ways in which these environments defy binary categorizations: dry/ wet, land/ water. She is currently doing fieldwork in Kuttanad, Kerala, studying the relationship between water control projects and agriculture in the region.

Saranya Subramanian is a poet, writer, and founder of The Bombay Poetry Crawl. Her writing has been published in Frontline, Lithub, The Caravan, Madras Courier, Aainanagar, Outlook, Vayavya, Kitaab, the Museum of Art and Photography, Scroll, The Bombay Literary Magazine––to name a few. Saranya's debut poetry collection is forthcoming with Westland in 2026.

Shweta Upadhyay is an arts journalist and co-author of the photobook 'I'll be looking at the moon, but I 'll be seeing you'. Formerly she has worked as the Assistant Editor at ART India magazine and Art Editor at Time Out Delhi. Her photobook received the Alkazi Photobook Grant and was shortlisted for Paris-Photo - Aperture First Photo book award.

Sudeshna Rana is an independent writer, editor and researcher based in India, working in print and digital publishing. In 2022, she won the South Asia Speaks literary fellowship in creative non-fiction to investigate Dhanbad, a mining town where she grew up. She is also the co-founder of Poorvanchal aur Palayan, an online archive on migration in and around East India, supported by the 2023 Serendipity Arts Virtual Grant.