GALF 2026

Speakers

Arshia Sattar works with the epics and storytelling traditions of the Indian sub-continent. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has translated the Valmiki Ramayana from Sanskrit into English. She has written several books of commentary and interpretation on this ancient text. More recently, she has retold myths and classical stories for younger readers. Her book,

Arshia Sattar

Arshia Sattar works with the epics and storytelling traditions of the Indian sub-continent. She has a Ph.D. from the University…

Vidya Krishnan is Senior Fellow at PARI. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2021. Her first book Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped Our History was released in February 2021. Her second book White Lillies, an essay about grief, poetry and history was published by Westland in April 2025. She has written for New York Times, The Atlantic and Caravan, magazine among others.

Vidya Krishnan

Vidya Krishnan is Senior Fellow at PARI. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2021. Her first book…

Ravikant Kisana had an ordinary education and as such does not have any prestigious alma mater to reference. He has not won any writing awards/fellowships either but he has not had any FIRs filed against him for offending sensibilities. He writes about caste and social elites and is the author of ‘Meet the Savarnas’. He also runs a podcast and performs unfunny ‘comedy’ under the moniker of ‘Buffalo Intellectual’. He is a professor of cultural studies and has over 15 years of experience spanning corporate roles, civil society and academia, and is associated with grassroots Ambedkarite mobilizing.

Ravikant Kisana

Ravikant Kisana had an ordinary education and as such does not have any prestigious alma mater to reference. He has…

Maithreyi Karnoor is the author of three works of fiction. Sylvia is her first novel, her second novel HettavaraNeralu is in Kannada, and Gooday Nagar, her collection of short stories, has its official launch at GALF 2026. She has translated two Kannada novels into English and has won the Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Prize for both. She is a former Charles Wallace India Trust fellow at Literature Across Frontiers and University of Wales Trinity St David. She is a two-time finalist of The Montreal International Poetry Prize and her debut poetry collection Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country will be published in the UK in April. Currently, she is doing a practice-based PhD in creative writing at a Welsh university for which she is writing her third novel.

Maithreyi Karnoor

Maithreyi Karnoor is the author of three works of fiction. Sylvia is her first novel, her second novel HettavaraNeralu is…

Manish Gaekwad is a writer who has been a reporter for Scroll.in, Mid-Day, and The Hindu, among other publications. He co-wrote the Netflix series She with Imtiaz Ali, served as a script consultant for Badhaai Do, and worked as a Script Creative at Red Chillies Entertainment. His books, published by Harper Collins, include the novel Lean Days, the memoir The Last Courtesan about his mother’s life as a tawaif, and his memoir Nautch Boy, exploring his own experiences in the kothas of Kamathipura and Bowbazar.

Manish Gaekwad

Manish Gaekwad is a writer who has been a reporter for Scroll.in, Mid-Day, and The Hindu, among other publications. He…

Jonathan Gil Harris is descended from a long line of migrants on both sides of his family. Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Harris worked in the US for twenty-three years before moving to India in 2011. He is the author of the best-selling The First Firangis (2015) and Masala Shakespeare (2018), as well as many other books. Harris now lives in Delhi, where he is Professor of English and Founding Dean at Ashoka University. His new book, The Girl from Fergana: Secrets of My Mother's Chinese Tea-Chest, has just been published by Aleph.

Jonathan Gil Harris

Jonathan Gil Harris is descended from a long line of migrants on both sides of his family. Born in New…

Keshava Guha is the author of the novels The Tiger's Share (John Murray, 2025) and Accidental Magic (HarperCollins, 2019). His essays and journalism – on politics, culture and sport – have been widely published. He was previously a senior editor at Juggernaut Books and a columnist for NDTV. He lives in Bangalore.

Keshava Guha

Keshava Guha is the author of the novels The Tiger's Share (John Murray, 2025) and Accidental Magic (HarperCollins, 2019). His…

Indranil Chakravarty is anacademic and film-maker trained at the Escuela Internacional de Cine yTV in Havana, with a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, NewZealand. For over two decades, he has taught film history and screenwriting at leading film institutes in lndia and abroad. His research spans biopics, world cinema and cosmopolitanism, andhis work has appearedin leadinginternationaljournals.HisbooksincludeThe NewLatinAmericanCinemaandIndia's Audiovisual Market: AllAnalysis,aswe.JIasRedeswbriendoaTagore (Rediscovering Tagore),publishedinSpanish,aboutthediscoursearotmdthe Indian poet in Hispanic literature. He is currently aHomi Bhabha Fellow. Youcanreachhimatwww.indrachakra.com

lndranil Chakravarty

Indranil Chakravarty is anacademic and film-maker trained at the Escuela Internacional de Cine yTV in Havana, with a PhD from…

Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker, writer and committed antakshari player whose extraordinary body of truth-telling, kinetic and intensely sensuous films, online videos, art installations and television programming, explore feminism, gender, desire, urban life and popular culture. She is the director of several documentaries including Unlimited Girls, Q2P, Where’s Sandra?, Morality TV and the Loving Jehad, Partners in Crime and most recently Working Girls. She has written the film Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters, the comiic Priya’s Mirror, the play Ishqiya Dharavi Ishtyle and a weekly newspaper column Paronormal Activity, which she wrote for 15 years. In 2015 she founded Agents of Ishq, a pioneering digital platform which has transformed conversations on sex, love and desire in India.

Paromita Vohra

Paromita Vohra is a filmmaker, writer and committed antakshari player whose extraordinary body of truth-telling, kinetic and intensely sensuous films,…

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