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The People

Shabari Rao is an artist and educator whose work is grounded in practice based research. Her primary interest is in the question: what counts as knowledge and how is the body involved in creating it? 

Bindhumalini Narayanswamy is a singer and composer interested in exploring and expressing the soul stirring power of music and silence.

Manush John is an artist and filmmaker who is interested in critically looking at human systems and knowledge creation in the context of impending environmental catastrophe.

Navya Sah is an Indian multidisciplinary artist who works in the realms of sound, film, movement and writing. Her work studies emotional responses on the politics of power and love. She likes the quiet. 

When Thejaswi Shvanand began reading in childhood, the Indian tectonic plate was farther away from the Eurasian plate by 66 cm. He likes to track the consequences of this plate movement during annual hikes in the Himalayas while continuing to read and work as a curator and library educator at Champaca Bookstore and Children's Library. 

Malvika Jha is an experimental media artist with an interest in performance. She uses her dreams to reflect on the roots of human emotions within body and memory. She focuses on the mind-body duality to inform her art practice.