Gender, Caste and Class

Anjali Joseph is an Indian novelist living in Britain. Her first novel, Saraswati Park, won the Betty Trask Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Her latest novel, Keeping in Touch, tracks the inner lives of sceptical late-thirties protagonists as they navigate falling in love. She is currently working on a novel about the Irish naval officer and archaeoastronomer Boyle Somerville.

Meena Kandasamy is an activist, poet, novelist and translator. Her books of poetry include Touch and Ms Militancy, and she is the author of three acclaimed novels, Gypsy Goddess, When I Hit You and Exquisite Cadavers. In 2022, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was also awarded the PEN Germany's Hermann Kesten Prize. Her latest published work is Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You, a political poetry pamphlet. 

Perumal Murugan is one of India's most respected and highest selling literary writers, author of eleven novels and five collections each of short stories and poetry. He has twice been longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature for One Part Woman and The Story of a Goat. His book Pyre was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2023.

Nilanjana S. Roy is a Delhi-based journalist, literary critic, editor and author. She has written and reviewed for numerous publications including the Guardian, New York Times and Huffington Post and has a weekly column in the Financial Times. Black River is Roy's debut thriller. 

Roanna Gonsalves is an award-winning writer and educator with an interdisciplinary practice. She is the author of the critically acclaimed collection of short fiction, The Permanent Resident. Her social-satirical radio series about contemporary India, On the tip of a billion tongues, and her essay Doosra: The life and times of an Indian student in Australia were commissioned and broadcast by ABC RN. She works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at UNSW, Sydney.