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Banu Mushtaq is a writer, activist and lawyer from Karnataka, India. Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in southwestern India in the 1970s and 80s. Critical of the caste system, the Bandaya Sahitya movementgave rise to influential Dalit and Muslim writers, of whom Mushtaq was one of the few women. She is the author of six short story collections,a novel, an essay collection and a poetry collection. She writes in Kannada and has won the Karnataka Sahitya Academy and Daana Chintamani Attimabbe awards.

Deepa Bhasthi is a writer and literary translator based in Kodagu, southern India. Her columns, essays and cultural criticism have been published in India and internationally. Her published translations from Kannada include a novel by Kota Shivarama Karanth and a collection of short stories by Kodagina Gouramma. Her translation of Banu Mushtaq’s stories has won her the English PEN Translates award.

Shikhar Goyal is an iron-and-steel entrepreneur at his day job. He has been educated at St. George’s College, Mussoorie, University of Delhi, New Delhi, and Babson College, USA. Shikhar is passionate about films, photography, public speaking, and memes. He runs a blog where he writes slice-of-life articles and also showcases his photography. Delhi Disco is Shikhar’s first rodeo as an author.

Deepali Gupta, former senior assistant editor at the Economic Times, has been a financial journalist for two decades, covering the economy and large corporate houses in India. Over the span of her career, she has worked with the Indian Express Group, Network18, Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.

Raman Mahadevan is a senior economic and business historian. His scholarly contribution lies in the broad area of industrial and capitalist development in colonial South India. He has co-edited Shaping India: Economic Change in Historical Perspective (2011) and South India Economy: Agrarian Change, Industrial structure and State Politics 1914–1947 (1991). Now an independent scholar, he is based in Bangalore.

Shrijeet Shandilya is a writer who discovers stories in the smallest moments: lingering discussions, spoken silences, and memories that refuse to fade. He finished his undergraduate studies at Christ University and is now pursuing his MBA at Goa Institute of Management. Somewhere between surviving deadlines and making sense of life, he discovered his love for writing. His writing incorporates comedy, nostalgia, and passion, portraying the bittersweetness of growing up, moving on, and everything in between. His debut novel, Can We Be Strangers Again?, is a reflection of these emotions—of love, loss, and the spaces in between them. You may reach him via email at shrijeet104@gmail.com.

Narmadashankar Dave (1833–188), popularly known as Narmad, was among the foremost Gujarati writers and social activists of his time.