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.

Kunjana Parashar is a poet, an editor, and a poetry consultant from Mumbai. Her debut poetry book They Gather Around Me, the Animals, selected by Diane Seuss, won the 2024 Barbara Stevens Poetry Book Award. She is the recipient of the Toto Funds the Arts Award and the Deepankar Khiwani Memorial Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is the Managing Editor (Poetry) at The Bombay Literary Magazine and one of the co-founders of The Osmosis Poetry Prize. You can find out more here.

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.

Mansi Jain is a visual artist, writer and researcher based in New Delhi and Jaipur. She is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Media, Art & Design interdisciplinary program with Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi. Her work focuses on Indian art history, visual culture and contemporary artistic practices, with particular interest in Rajasthani painting traditions. She writes on art, aesthetics and the intersections of lived experience and artistic practice.

Nachiket Joshi is a literary scholar, translator, and educator based in Mumbai, India. He conducted his doctoral research on questions of gender, violence, and embodiment in contemporary Indian poetry at INALCO, Paris. His research covers poetry and literary fiction written in English, Marathi, and Hindi. He also translates poetry, fiction, and works of literary criticism from Marathi, Hindi, and French into English. Apart from his scholarly output, he regularly contributes essays and book reviews to national and international publications aimed at a more general audience. He currently teaches courses on literary theory, cultural studies, and world cinema at NMIMS, Mumbai.

Nainvi Vora is an art historian and curator specialising in South Asian modern and contemporary art with a focus on feminist historiography, transnational modernisms, and alternative archival frameworks. She was formerly Associate Curator at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and holds postgraduate degrees in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was the Curatorial Resident at the Delfina Foundation (2025), where she developed research and curatorial frameworks around transnational sculptural practice and archives of modernist sculptor Pilloo Pochkhanawala. Her recent curatorial projects include Digitizing the Miniature: Mahnoor Hussain and the Spirit of Feminism (2024) at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.