Anuradha Kapur is a theatre maker and teacher. Her theatre work has travelled nationally and internationally and she has taught in theatre schools and Universities in India and abroad. She has served as Director, National School of Drama, New Delhi, from 2007 to 2013, where she was also Professor of Acting and Direction. She has been Visiting Professor at Ambedkar University Delhi from 2014 to 2023; at the University of Cape Town in 2013, and at the University of Warwick in 2013, and 2023. A lot of Anuradha’s directorial work has been in collaboration with visual and video artists and filmmakers, including Arpita Singh, Bhupen Khakhar, Ein Lall, Madhusree Dutta, Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh, Sumant Jayakrishnan, and Vivan Sundaram. She is one of the founder members of Vivadi, a working group of painters, musicians, writers and theatre practitioners, formed in 1989. Her theatre work has travelled to countries including Germany, Japan, Brazil, UK, and Korea. In 2004, Anuradha was awarded the Sangeet Natak Award for Direction in the Theatre. Among her acclaimed productions are Rabindranath Tagores Ghar aur Bahar, Umrao, Romeo and Juliet,The Job,Sundari: an Actor Prepares, a play based on the life of Jaishankar Sundari, Henrik IbsensThe Wild Duckin collaboration with Ein Lall; a Hindi version of JB Priestleys An Inspector Calls and many others. Her writings on performance have been widely anthologized and her book Actors Pilgrims Kings and Gods: the Ramlila at Ramnagar was published by Seagull Books, Calcutta (1993, 2004). Anuradha Kapur was invited to curate the performance window for Body. City: Siting Contemporary Culture in India, presented at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, September 2003. She co-curated the theatre section of the Serendipity Arts Festival Goa in 2016 and 2017; ITFOK in 2017 and 2023.

Artist Indrapramit Roy’s over three decade long career has seen him donning many hats – artist, art educator, illustrator, designer and writer. He is primarily a visual artist who has been showing regularly since 1990 and has had 20 solo exhibitions till date. Internationally he has taken part in Group shows in London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Melbourne and Bangkok. He has represented India in Asian Art Exhibition in Macao, the Cairo Biennale, Cairo, India @70 at Bangkok. In 2013 he completed a 12 x 26 feet mural for the new terminal T-2 at Mumbai international airport. Prof. Roy has been teaching at his alma mater Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU of Baroda since 1995. His articles on art and culture have appeared in Times Higher Education supplement-London, Take on Art journal, Art India Magazine, Nandan, Art East, ArtVaarta, and various other publications. Indrapramit Roy studied at the Visa-Bharti University of Santiniketan, the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University of Baroda and subsequently at Royal College of Art, London. Honours and fellowships include Inlaks fellowship to study at RCA, London, Erasmus exchange award for a term each at Cite des Arts-Paris and HdK, Berlin, the Fulbright fellowship and more recently Artist-in-Residence at The Siena Art Institute, Italy. He was honoured with ‘Artist Praful Dave Kala-pratibha Award’ by Gujarat Vishwakosh Trust in 2024.

Rita Kothari, a multilingual scholar and translator whose work spans different disciplines, is Professor of English and Co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation at Ashoka University. Her questions emerge from observations of regions and communities in the western part of the Indian subcontinent—Gujarat, Kutch, and Sindh. Her ethnographic research on marginal communities—through religion, caste, occupation, and gender—focuses on narratives of identity, raising questions of both linguistic and cultural translation. Kothari has translated extensively from Gujarati and Sindhi into English and occasionally vice versa. The edited volume, A Multilingual Nation, and the monographs, The Burden of Refuge and Uneasy Translations, are among her notable works.

Riyas Komu is a renowned artist and curator who has exhibited his works worldwide, including the Venice Biennale. His works -- paintings, sculptures , videos , photographs and installations -- dwell on a range of subjects that include war, displacement, migration, violence, history, conflict, betrayal,peace, football, multiculturalism, diversity, Art and The Indian Constitution. He is the ideator of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale and co-founder of the Kochi Biennale Foundation. He co-curated the first edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2012 and made the biennale as a multidisciplinary educational project as the director of programmes. Komu is the co-founder of URU Art Harbour, a cultural hub in Mattancherry, Kochi, which promotes artists from the region focused on local culture and maritime history. He co-curated the first International Football Film Festival in India at the Goa International Film Festival and Trivandrum International Film Festival in 2012. Young Subcontinet, a research project supporting young artists he curated at Serendipity Arts Festival. His critically acclaimed solo projects include “Faith Accompli - 2005”, “Related List - 2008”. ‘Holy Shiver-2018' has been revised as an education project and it travels through the art in the Constitution. In 2019, Komu curated the Kondotty Sufi Festival. He is the artistic director of the acclaimed ‘Sea a Boiling Vessel’ exhibition, an ongoing research project by Aazhi Archives which puts the spotlight on Knowledge + Art + People.

Deeptha Achar is Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat. She has co-edited Towards New Art History: Studies in Indian Art (2003), Discourse, Democracy and Difference: Perspectives on Community, Politics and Culture (2010) and Articulating Resistance: Art and Activism (2012) and her book, Nation Region Modernity: The Art of K Venkatappa, co-edited with Pushpamala N. (2025) has recently been published. She is the series editor of the Different Tales series, a multilanguage series of illustrated children’s books that thematize marginalized childhoods and contexts. Her research interests include visual culture studies and childhood studies.

Saumya Joshi is a celebrated playwright, director, actor, and poet from Ahmedabad, has made a significant impact in the world of theatre and cinema. His illustrious body of work includes the critically acclaimed plays 'Welcome Zindagi' (over 800 shows) and '102 Not Out' (over 600 shows) and O! Womaniya, as well as the Hindi film '102 Not Out' and the National award-winning film 'Hellaro'. As the founder of Fade In Theatre, a dynamic student-youth theatre group, Saumya continues to nurture new talent and create evocative theatre works.

Manvita Baradi is the Founder and Director of Urban Management Centre, advocating for professionalizing urban management for nearly three decades. Manvita also runs the Theatre and Media Centre, preserving Gujarati theatre and heritage. Trained as an Architect-Urban Planner and in Local Government Management, she founded Asia’s first Urban Management program at CEPT University. With support for municipal reforms in India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia, she has significantly impacted urban governance. As an editor of NATAK magazine, her interdisciplinary approach combines urban systems knowledge with performing arts to communicate urban reforms effectively.

Dhvanit Thaker is a well-known former radio jockey, singer, actor, writer (“Morning Mantra”), as well as a TedTalk speaker. As RJ Dhvanit, he used to host the popular morning show on Radio Mirchi in Ahmedabad for around 18 years. In his illustrious career, he received the Best Gujarati Radio Jockey Award and the Best Radio Show Award from India Radio Forum several times. He is also the recipient of National Awards for Radio. He has written columns for magazines and newspapers in Gujarati and English, and is now writing a series of children books - Tachukdi Tales. He is actively involved in social and charitable causes including in the CSR space and around urban tree plantation. He has been the State Emissary for the Election Commission of India for Gujarat State Vidhansabha Election 2012. Dhvanit is a father of two daughters and passionate about Education. His wife is a teacher. His mother is his source of inspiration and energy.

Chirag Trivedi is Assistant Professor in Communication at the Amrut Mody School of Management. He is pursuing PhD from Gujarat University with focus of his doctoral study on Elitism in Gujarati literature: A postcolonial inquiry into the shaping of the literary canon in Gujarat. He has been presenting and publishing research papers in national and international conferences and journals for the last 15 years. He has been invited to host guest sessions, conduct workshops and seminars in self-awareness, personal development, and effective teaching skills by various reputed institutions. He has been associated, as a passionate volunteer, with Samvedana Foundation, Ahmedabad – an NGO that works for education and nutrition for children from humble background. He also voluntarily offers editorial services on the editorial board of VAHI –Journal of Poetry, Ritual and Multilingual Expression of Society. His interests lie in identity politics in literature, partition literature, dalit literature and culture studies. He is presently involved in teaching courses on literature, culture studies, business communication and gender sensitization. He fondly takes to creative writing and translation of literary texts. His poetic expressions and translations have got published in reputed poetry magazines such as Vahi and Kavita.