Nowtopia

Ritika Biswas is a curator, artistic researcher and writer from Kolkata who lives and works nomadically, primarily across South Korea, Berlin and Bengal.  She works on and via ecological criticism, experimental kinships, necropolitics and questions of justice. Along with Chander Haat, she will curate the next Bengal Biennale (2026-27). Holding a Liberal Arts degree from Yale-NUS College and an MPhil in Film and Screen Studies from the University of Cambridge, she was a curator at New Art Exchange Gallery (Nottingham, UK) from 2019-2021 and Artistic Director for the 2021 Sea Art Festival, Non-/Human Assemblages (Busan Biennale). Selected recent exhibitions include scape (Gallery 88 Mumbai), Spectres of Our Own Making (15th Gwangju Biennale), Nine Nodes of Non-Being (421 Arts Campus Abu Dhabi), the digital research platform Littoral Chronicle with artists Shezad Dawood and ikkibawiKrrr (2023-ongoing), among others. She was the 2024 Curator-in-Residence at Fondation Fiminco in Paris and 2022 International Research Fellow at MMCA Seoul.

Tathagata Bhattacharya is a writer, journalist and sustainability expert who divides his time between the plains of Delhi and the mountains of Uttarakhand. He has over two decades of experience in writing and reporting as well as editorial management of diverse teams and media verticals. His current obsession is the mainstreaming of climate change–friendly habitats. He is the only child of cult Bengali writer Nabarun Bhattacharya and the only grandchild of noted playwright-director Bijon Bhattacharya and writer-activist Mahasweta Devi. General Firebrand and His Red Atlas is his first novel.

Jashodhara Chakraborti is the force behind Write Right and an author, literary translator, TEDx speaker, moderator and editor. She is an alumna of Delhi Public School RK Puram, Lady Shri Ram College for Women and Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and has previously worked in the IT industry. She also taught Mathematics at the Secondary school level in London for seven years. As Jash Sen, she is the author of two books published by Duckbill; she has translated a work from Bengali into English as Jashodhara Chakraborti, which was published by Speaking Tiger. She has written fiction, non-fiction, OTT content and content for diverse stakeholders in the corporate, social and cultural space. She has created, developed and executed workshops on narrative building for students at educational institutions including IIM Kozhikode. She lives and works in Calcutta and collects crime fiction.