Arts Illustrated
Abha-Iyengar

Abha Iyengar

Abha Iyengar is an award-winning, internationally published poet, author, essayist, editor and British Council-certified creative writing mentor. Her published works are Yearnings, Flash Bites, Shrayan, and The Gourd Seller and Other Stories.

Aditi-Seshadri

Aditi Seshadri

Aditi Seshadri is a former journalist and current Goa resident. She runs Unlock Impact, a consulting firm for social change, and imbibes all things cultural, either side of mandatory beach days.

Akhila Krishnamurthy

Akhila Krishnamurthy

Akhila Krishnamurthy is a freelance journalist and an arts entrepreneur. She is curious and constantly seeking narratives that affect the landscape of the performing arts and culture.

Amritha-Dinesh

Amritha Dinesh

Amritha Dinesh is a writer based in Chennai. She has dabbled in entrepreneurship, copywriting, equity research, industrial marketing and everything in between. She also likes to write fiction across genres and has been published intermittently.

Anu-Majumdar

Anu Majumdar’s

Anu Majumdar’s published work includes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. It has also been part of choreographic projects and art installations. She lives and works in Auroville.

Arti-Sandhu

Arti Sandhu

Arti Sandhu is an Associate Professor of Fashion at the School of Design, DAAP, at the University of Cincinnati. She is also the author of the book Indian Fashion: Tradition, Innovation, Style published by Bloomsbury Academic.

Daniel-Connell

Daniel Connell

Daniel Connell lived in Jaipur for three years (2007-2010) and returns to India, North and South, every year. He is a practising artist, a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia and teaches at the Adelaide Central School of Art.

Debasmita-Dasgupta

Debasmita Dasgupta

Debasmita Dasgupta is a freelance illustrator, specialising in drawing for children of all ages. Those who appreciate her artwork are fond of bright colours, big eyes and shining smiles. She is an arts fellow under the National Arts Strategies (USA) and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in the United Kingdom.

Deepa Padmanabhan

Deepa Padmanabhan is a Bengaluru-based freelance journalist writing on science, environment, health and culture.

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Gautam Bhatia

Gautam Bhatia is a Delhi-based award-winning architect, artist, and writer. Besides a biography on Laurie Baker, he is the author of Punjabi Baroque, Silent Spaces and Malaria Dreams – a trilogy that focuses on the cultural and social aspects of buildings.

Krystin-Arneson

Krystin Arneson

Krystin Arneson is a writer and editor currently based in Berlin. She is the co-founder of KOG, a creative agency dedicated to LGBTQ + travel. You can find her work at krystin-arneson.com.

Meera Rajagopalan

Meera Rajagopalan

Chennai-based writer who has worked for publications in India and in the U.S. Her work tends to focus on the intersection of culture and identity, and she believes in ghosts.

Poonam Ganglani

Poonam Ganglani

Poonam Ganglani was most recently Managing Editor, Books, at a Dubai publishing house. She’s currently a freelance writer based in India, focusing on books.

Radhika Iyengar

Radhika Iyengar

Radhika Iyengar is a Delhi-based reporter with experience in print and photography. She holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York.

Rehana-Munir

Rehana Munir

Rehana Munir is a Bombay-based writer/editor. She set up and ran an independent bookshop for a few years, has run cricket websites, and loves ginger tea, plotless novels and The Beatles.

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Romain Maitra

Romain Maitra is a writer, art critic and curator. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the City University of New York and worked as a Consultant in the Sector for Culture at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

Saritha-Rao-Rayachoti

Saritha Rao Rayachoti

Saritha Rao Rayachoti is an independent writer based in Chennai who loves exploring diverse aspects of culture. She has written for several national and international publications.

Seema-Massot

Seema Massot

Seema Massot has been navigating the waters of cultural management between France and India since 2009 and is now writing about experiencing art.

Shakti Maira

Shakti Maira

Shakti Maira is a critically acclaimed artist-philosopher from India. He has written extensively on art and design, including two books – Towards Ananda: Rethinking Indian Art and Aesthetics, and The Promise of Beauty & Why it Matters.

Siddhartha Das

Siddhartha Das

Siddhartha Das is a designer and visual artist who uses culture for socioeconomic change, and was the recipient of the British Council International Young Design Entrepreneur Award in 2009.

Supriya Sehgal

Supriya Sehgal

Supriya Sehgal is a serial travel guidebook author with words in over 30 Lonely Planet Guidebooks. She likes to think of herself as a seasoned chronicler of the unusual. More about her on www.supriyasehgal.com.

Susan-Mathen

Susan Mathen

Susan Mathen is a brand strategist, deeply passionate about colour semiotics, design thinking and art history, and is the co-founder of www.hueandwhy.com.

Suzanne-McNeill

Suzanne McNeill

Suzanne McNeill lived in India for seven years, first in Chennai and then in Delhi. She has now returned to Scotland where she works as a freelance writer and graphic designer.

Suzanne-van-der-Borg

Suzanne van der Borg

Suzanne van der Borg is half-Italian and half-Dutch, and considers her mixed heritage a privilege that is reflected in all her works. She lives, works and writes from Venice, Italy.