Abhay Sardesai
Editor
Anamika
Poet
Anant Nath
Journalist
Anjali Purohit
Writer-Artist
Ashis Nandy
Author
Ayaz Memon
Sports Journalist
Chandan Gowda
Social Theorist
Danish Husain
Filmmaker
Darab Farooqui
Writer
Dipika Roy
Actor
Dolly Thakore
Actor
Durga Prasad Panda
Bilingual Poet & Critic
Fahad Samar
Filmmaker & Author
GSP Rao
Managing Editor, Muse India
Hemant Divate
Poet
Jyoti Narula Ranjan
Co-Founder, Syntalk
K. Srilata
Poet
Kamal Vora
Poet
Manu Dash
Poet
Mustansir Dalvi
Architect & Poet
Nabina Das
Poet
Namita Devidayal
Author
Nandan Maluste
Banker
Neena Gupta
Actor
Paritosh Joshi
Advisor, Sun TV
Rama Lakshmi
Journalist
Richa Shah
Publisher
Rosinka Chaudhuri
Poet
Sachin Ketkar
Writer
Samir Somaiya
Sampurna Chatterji
Poet
Sanjeev Khandekar
Writer & Visual Artist
Sarabjeet Garcha
Literary Translator
Smita Sahay
Writer
Smruti Divate
Publisher
Sony Shrivastava
Education Management Professional
Taseer Gujral
Writer
Vaishali Narkar
Visual Artist
Our Friends
Frankly, what helped us take this project forward from being a germ of an idea to a full blown project was the support from our friends across the spectrum. Friends of the Collective are accomplished writers, thinkers, poets or just evolved readers. Often, we approached them to become a mentor, but they felt they were pressed for time and joined as friends instead! We hope that conversations about Indian novels will continue to grow and be enriched.
Abhay Sardesai
Editor
Abhay Sardesai is the Editor of ART India, the country’s premier art magazine, since November 2002. Under his editorship, the magazine has developed a Culture Studies-oriented approach and has become more inter-disciplinary in its theme-based explorations. He has been a Visiting Faculty in Aesthetics at the Department of English, University of Mumbai, and has also been the Chair of Humanities, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai.
Anamika
Poet
Anamika is a prominent contemporary Indian poet, social worker, and novelist writing in Hindi, and a critic writing in English. She has eight collections of poetry, five novels and four works of criticism in her credit. Currently, she is Reader at the Department of English, Satyawati College, University of Delhi.
Anant Nath
Journalist
Editor-in-chief of India’s first narrative-based journalism magazine and director at Delhi Press, Anant Nath writes columns in The Caravan, titled Editor’s Corner.
Anjali Purohit
Writer-Artist
Anjali Purohit is an artist, writer, poet, translator and curator. She is the author of two books, Ragi Ragini: Chronicles from Aji’s Kitchen(Yoda Press, 2012) and Go Talk to the River: the Ovis of Bahinabai Choudhari (Yoda Press, 2019). Her writing has also featured in several anthologies and literary journals. She is the founder and curator of The Cappuccino Adda. She is presently working on her forthcoming book of poetry.
Ashis Nandy
Author
Award-winning political psychologist and social theorist Ashis Nandy has provided very relevant theoretical critiques of European colonialism, modernity, secularism, science, technology, nuclearism, cosmopolitanism, and utopia. Nandy has appeared on the list of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll of the Foreign Policy (2008) and is currently the Chairperson of the Committee of Cultural Choices and Global Futures, in New Delhi.
Ayaz Memon
Sports Journalist
Ayaz Memon is an Indian sports writer, journalist, columnist, author and lawyer. He started his career as sports writer and went on to edit newspapers like Mid-Day, Bombay Times and DNAapart from being editor of Sportsweek magazine and sports editor of the Times of India and the Independent at various stages.