Contributors

The Himmat Workshops

Farzana Shaikh, Rabia Shaikh, Rehana Shaikh, Shah Jehan Shaikh, Tahera Pathan, Taslim Qureshi, and Vasudha Thozhur

Shubha Mudgal

Vidyadhari Bai’s “Chun Chun ke Phool Le Lo”: A Tawaif’s Voice in the Freedom Struggle

Makarand Sathe

They Went Ahead

Translated by Ajay Joshi and the author

Mamang Dai

An Obscure Place: Five Survival Lyrics

Najwan Darwish

We Never Stop: Four Poems

Translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Subhro Bandopadhyay

About Presences: Three Poems

Translated by the author and Ranjit Hoskote

Rahman Abbas

The Melancholy of the Soul

Translated by Sabika Abbas

Dil-o-Danish

A Reading from Krishna Sobti’s celebrated novel

Ritu Menon

The Importance of the Dissenting Voice