Saraswati

Gurnaik Johal’s short story collection We Move (Serpent’s Tail, 2022) won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Tata Literature Live! Prize, was a Guardian Book of the Year and a Hindustan Times Book of the Year. He won the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize in 2022.  His work has been featured in BBC Radio 4’s Short Works series as well as in the short fiction anthology Duets (Scratch Books, 2024). His first novel Saraswati is an Observer Best Debut of 2025 and has been shortlisted for the 2025 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.

Sujaan Mukherjee is the senior curator at the Birla Academy of Art & Culture. He enjoys researching and writing on art, literature and cities. Sujaan completed his PhD as a SYLFF  fellow at Jadavpur University, before joining the CSSSC as a Mellon Foundation post-doctoral fellow. A two-time recipient of India Foundation for the Arts fellowships, he has been associated with several museums and archives. Sujaan translates and has published bilingually both academically and on popular platforms.