PIANIST-COMPOSER Utsav Lal UTSAV LAL is an Indian-American pianist-composer often known as the "Raga Pianist". Hailed by numerous media outlets as a ground-breaking performer, Lal has performed solo at the Carnegie Hall, Southbank Centre, Kennedy Center, Steinway Hall, among others, and honored as a Young Steinway Artist, amongst others. He has collaborated with Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Winifred Horan, Australian Contemporary Circus Theatre CIRCA, Talvin Singh, George Brooks, Rajna Swaminathan, and has 7 solo records, including a historic world’s first album on the microtonal Fluid Piano (2016). Lal holds degrees in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory of Music, and Jazz from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. PIANIST-COMPOSER WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 LOAD MORE

DESIGNER Anita Zehra Anita Zehra is a designer, cultural practitioner, and writer. Her work revolves around themes of identity and ecology. She is based in Karachi. DESIGNER WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 LOAD MORE

ARITST Mariyam Omar MARIYAM OMAR 's work focuses on human interactions within the society, with her primary medium being painting. Her installation works are based mainly on human rights issues. Her solo exhibition Untitled Works was held at the National Art Gallery in 2011. Her installation Departure from Logic and Humanity is featured in the ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2014 Volume. She has exhibited her work in exhibitions including XOPI Exhibition of Public Enquiry in 2012 at Malé City Hall, The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show curated by SØren Dahlgaard in Venice in 2013, Berlin’s Import Projects Gallery, the Bangladesh Biennale, the Nasandhura Palace Hotel, and the Loama Art Gallery. ARITST WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER A Dhivehi Artists Showcase Jun 5, 2021 Kareen Adam · Nazish Chunara LOAD MORE

TRANSLATOR N Kalyan Raman N KALYAN RAMAN has been translating Tamil fiction and poetry into English for the last two decades, for which he received the Pudumaipithan Award in 2017. Some of the fiction writers he has made accessible to an Anglophone audience include the late Ashokamitran, Devibharathi, Vaasanthi, Perumal Murugan, and Poomani. He has translated numerous Tamil poets, including forty poems by forty Tamil women poets for an anthology curated by Kutti Revathi. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation in 2022 for his translation of Perumal Murugan's Poonachi . TRANSLATOR WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 LOAD MORE

ARTIST Jayeeta Chatterjee JAYEETA CHATTERJEE completed her BFA in Printmaking from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, West Bengal. Through her practice, she highlights the issues within the domestic and monotonous lives of middle-class women, particularly from lower-income groups living in small towns. ARTIST WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 LOAD MORE

SENIOR EDITOR Sarah Eleazar Sarah Eleazar is a sociocultural anthropologist at UT Austin, formerly with Dawn and Express Tribune . She is also a journalist and activist, currently based in Lahore. SENIOR EDITOR WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Beatrice Wangui's Fight for Seed Sovereignty in Kenya Apr 22, 2024 Pierra Nyaruai Into the Disaster-Verse Mar 12, 2024 Kamil Ahsan Assam, Mizoram, and the Construction of the "Other" Feb 25, 2023 Joyona Medhi · Abhishek Basu Universalism & Solidarity in a Post-Roe Landscape Feb 23, 2023 Sharmin Hossain India's Vector Capitalism Model Jun 5, 2021 Anumeha Yadav LOAD MORE

AUTHOR Chanchinmawia CHANCHINMAWLA is a journalist based in an Indo-Myanmar border town in India's Mizoram. He has previously contributed to Al Jazeera , Reuters , etc. AUTHOR WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 LOAD MORE

CHIEF EDITOR Iman Iftikhar IMAN IFTIKHAR is a political theorist, historian, and amateur oil painter and illustrator. She is an editor for Folio Books and a returning fellow at Kitab Ghar Lahore. She is based in Oxford and Lahore. CHIEF EDITOR WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER After the March Apr 19, 2025 Zoya Rehman Letter to History (II) Apr 9, 2025 Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur Letter to History (I) Apr 3, 2025 Hazaran Rahim Dad A Man's World Mar 2, 2025 Nidhil Vohra SAAG’s 2024 In Reading Dec 25, 2024 The Editors Update from Dhaka III Jul 23, 2024 Shahidul Alam Update from Dhaka II Jul 21, 2024 Shahidul Alam The Limits of Documentation May 14, 2024 Anmol Irfan On the Relationship between Form & Resistance Apr 17, 2024 Iman Iftikhar · Sharmin Hossain · Kalpana Raina · Maira Khwaja · Suneil Sanzgiri LOAD MORE

SENIOR EDITOR Shubhanga Pandey Shubhanga Pandey is a historian at University of California, Los Angeles and formerly the Chief Editor of Himal Southasian . His work has appeared in The Caravan , London Review of Books , and Jacobin , among others. He is based in Los Angeles and Kathmandu. SENIOR EDITOR WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 LOAD MORE

MUSICIAN-COMPOSER Priya Darshini PRIYA DARSHINI is a vocalist with a fresh, imaginative and fascinating sound influenced by Carnatic and South Asian classical music, and deeply syncretic global traditions including Americana, folk, and jazz improvisation. Her debut album Periphery (Chesky Records, 2020) was nominated at the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards for Best New Age Album. Based in Brooklyn, Darshini also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Wildlife Coexistence Network , and is a trustee of the Mumbai-based non-profit Jana Rakshita which aids underprivileged pediatric cancer patients, Adivasi children's education, amongst other initiatives. MUSICIAN-COMPOSER WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 LOAD MORE

ACTIVIST-SCHOLAR Aqui Thami AQUI THAMI is an artist, activist, scholar doctoral candidate, and founder of Sister Library , South Asia's first community owned feminist library space. ACTIVIST-SCHOLAR WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 LOAD MORE

ARTIST, CURATOR Hit Man Gurung HIT MAN GURUNG is an artist and curator based in Kathmandu by way of Lamjung. Gurung’s diverse practice concerns itself with the fabric of human mobilities, frictions of history, and failures of revolutions. While rooted in the recent history of Nepal, his works unravel a complex web of kinships and extraction across geographies that underscore the exploitative nature of capitalism. ARTIST, CURATOR WEBSITE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 Heading 5 Heading 6 Heading 6 LOAD MORE