He is one of the chief editors of ‘Global Civil Society’ at London School of Economics and co-founder of Indian Novels Collective to promote translation of classic novels of Indian Literature. Recently his select poems have been translated for a special volume Architecture of Alphabets in Hungarian. Widely published, anthologised and translated, his poems are noted for ‘lyrical celebration’ of garbled voices of memory and their subversive ‘whimsy’ quality. His major anthologies are My Grandfather’s Imaginary Typewriter and Banaras and the Other. In 2020, Kapil received the Windham Campbell Prize for Poetry from Yale University and the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry from the Society of Authors.Īshwani Kumar is poet, writer, and professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai). She is also the author of Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat Books, 2016), Schizophrene (Nightboat Books, 2011), humanimal (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), and The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001). Her most recent books are How To Wash A Heart (Pavillion Poetry, 2020) and a new edition of Incubation: A Space for Monsters (Kelsey Street Press, 2020). She divides her time between Pondicherry and London.īhanu Kapil is a poet and an artist by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

Her op-ed/essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The White Review, and Guernica among other places. Her second novel, When I Hit You, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch and Ms Militancy, and the critically acclaimed novel, The Gypsy Goddess. Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who was born in Chennai, India.

Currently Writer in Residence at the University of York and Visiting Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Capildeo's newest work is Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, forthcoming 2021). Vahni Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. We stand with the people of India, in diaspora and at home like them, everything will be remembered.Īamir Aziz is a poet, actor and activist based in Mumbai. All money raised was donated to a range of community-based, mutual aid initiatives based on regularly updated guidance from organisers and mutual aid workers in India. Organised by Ignota, the87Press and The White Review, the event featured readings by Aamer Aziz, Vahni Capildeo, Meena Kandasamy, Bhanu Kapil, Ashwani Kumar, Pratyusha, Nat Raha, Nisha Ramayya, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Himali Singh Soin, Bisakh Som and Preti Taneja (reading from the work of Karithka Naïr). On 5 June 2021, poets, writers and artists came together in solidarity, in grief and in love with the people of India.

Everything will be remembered.’ – Aamir Aziz

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