Amy Singh is a poet, podcast host, facilitator, and TEDx speaker from Chandigarh. She uses poetry as a medium of storytelling, activism, and human connection to promote positive social change. Amy runs Cross Connection Poetry, an initiative to bring poetry out into the public spaces and to work with marginalized communities and at-risk children through […]
Madan Gopal Singh is an Indian composer, singer, lyricist, actor, screenwriter, film theorist, editor and polyglot. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi while on leave from Satyawati College (Evening Classes), where he taught English literature. Son of well-known Punjabi poet Harbhajan Singh, Madan Gopal Singh has written […]
Sufi kalaam Vocalist | Composer | Narrator Radhika’s love for Sufi music was kindled by 17th c Sufi mystic Baba Bulleh Shah’s poetry. Beginning with Mumbai Kabir Festival, she has travelled on to Kabir Yatras in Rajasthan, Malwa, Telangana and Delhi. Another Sufi faqeer from Punjab, Shah Hussain’s poetry has inspired her to compose, create […]
Rene Singh is a singer trained in semi-classical music. She has a vast knowledge of Sufi and Urdu poetry, which has led her to delve into its history and musically present the lives of various poets to the people across the globe. Singh curates and designs modules and workshops through poetry and music. Her work […]
His music is an act of poetic subversion… he creates a bridge between the written word and music — Scroll.in Harpreet is a versatile artiste, who sings original musical compositions in Hindi, as well as, in regional Indian languages and dialects such as Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Rajasthani and Haryanvi. Harpreet has gained critical acclaim for […]
Dr Rakhshanda Jalil is a multi-award-winning translator, writer, and literary historian. She has published over 25 books and written over 50 academic papers and essays. Some of her books include: Liking Progress, Loving Change: A Literary History of the Progressive Writers Movement in Urdu (OUP, 2014); a biography of Urdu feminist writer Dr Rashid Jahan: […]
Vinita Agrawal is the author of six books of poetry, the latest being Eartha from Sahitya Akademi. Her book Twilight Language won the Proverse Prize, Hongkong in 2021. She has edited two anthologies on climate change, Open Your Eyes and Count Every Breath. She won the Tagore Literary Prize in 2018 and the Gayatri GaMarsh […]
Writer, Poet, Singer, Traveller & Communications Consultant Supriya Newar is a 3rd generation Calcuttan who wears multiple hats with consummate ease and infectious passion. Author of acclaimed titles such as ‘Kalkatta Chronicles’ and ‘Kolkata Classics’, Supriya’s pen flows effortlessly across forms and languages and resonates easily with her diverse readers. She has also contributed to […]
Smitha Sehgal is a bilingual poet who writes in English and Malayalam. Her collection of poems ‘How Women Become Poems in Malabar’ has been published by Red River. She has been nominated for the distinguished Best of the Net awards by three international poetry journals. She is alumna of Govt Law College and is currently serving […]
Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri is either an ‘accidental’ editor who strayed into publishing from a career in finance and accounts or an ‘accidental’ finance person who found his calling in publishing. As editor at HarperCollins Publishers India and Penguin Books India, he set up the copy editorial team and helped launch what came to be regarded […]
