Bhima’s Wife

Kavita Kané is the best selling author of nine novels and is considered a force in Indian writing mainly because she has brought in feminism where it is most needed – mythology. All her books are based on lesser known women in Indian mythology – Karna’s Wife (2013), Sita’s Sister (2014), Menaka’s Choice (2015), Lanka’s Princess (2016), The Fisher Queen’s Dynasty (2017), Ahalya’s Awakening (2019), Sarasvati’s Gift (2021), Tara’s Truce (2023) and the latest Bhima’s Wife. She began her writing journey as a journalist and, eventually, quit her job as Assistant Editor of TOI to devote herself to full-time writing. Passionate about theatre, cinema and the arts, she is also a columnist, screenplay writer and a motivational speaker.

A post-graduate from London International School of Performing Arts, Titas has been a practicing theatre maker and performer for more than two decades working for NSD Repertory Company, The Company Theatre, Shapeshift Collective and many more national and international theatre companies. She/they is a queer theatre maker and arts leader based out of Kolkata. She/they has been performing extensively across Europe, Australia and Asia for most of their performing career. She/they was instrumental in the formative years of TCT Workspace Kamshet, Maharashtra and Kolkata Centre for Creativity’s performing arts department. She/they is one of the founder members of  the  women and queer theatre collective ‘Birati Samuho Performer’s Collective’ (Samuho) founded in April 2019 where her/their research on performativity of gender marginalised bodies in public/performance space has been manifesting into live creations. She/they advocate for inclusive content and practice, accessibility of theatre for all, safe space for actors/performers and self-sustenance of creative organisations in her/their creative practice. Looking at the world through a queer feminist lens, she/they try to explore, reimagine and recreate the forgotten/erased history of marginalised people across intersections. She/they was a fellow of the Future Leaders Fellowship by Australian Council for the Arts (Creative Australia) in 2022 and a recipient of Third Bell Playwriting Fellowship by Bhasha Centre, Bengaluru.

An alumna of Loreto House, La Martiniere for Girls and Presidency College, Calcutta, Priyadarshinee Guha has a Masters in Modern History and a gold medal from Calcutta University. Passionate about teaching she chose to make this her life force. She has taught History and English for the last 30 years in reputed schools of Calcutta. As a teacher of History, she has conducted several workshops for students and for training of teachers in using novel and creative approaches in the classroom. She was the Vice-Principal of Indus Valley World School from 2021-24. A trained Rabindra Sangeet singer, she has worked for several years in a reputed Bengali theatre group in Calcutta. She has mounted award winning theatre productions for schools and directed water ballets set to Tagorean themes. A multi-faceted person, she has been the master of ceremonies for events and is a regular moderator at the city circuit. Presently as the Associate Vice-President of the Kolkata Centre for Creativity she carries on her passion in the sphere of education by designing courses, talks, workshops and events.