Abha Purbey

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Abha Purbey is a scholar and linguistic activist. She works primarily in Angika and Hindi and teaches Hindi at S.M. College, Bhagalpur. She is an active member of Angika Sansad, an independent publishing house dedicated to promulgating the cause of official recognition for Angika as a language in its own right. She has been creatively active since the early 1990s.


Shivangi is a literary translator working between English, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Odia, Magahi and Angika. She is invested in the politics of language, intimacy, and vernacular memory, with a focus on uncovering lost and underrepresented narratives of women.

Tejaswi Rawal is a literary translator and writer from Delhi, based in London. She is interested in material culture, print history, and meeting points of the familiar and the figurative. And cake.

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