ANISH GAWANDE

Anish Gawande is a writer and curator based between Mumbai and New Delhi. He works at the intersection of culture, technology and politics with a special emphasis on gender and sexuality in South Asia. He is the founder of Pink List India, the country’s first archive of politicians supporting LGBTQ+ rights, and the director of the Dara Shikoh Fellowship, an interdisciplinary arts residency in Kashmir.

Anish holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Columbia University and masters degrees in intellectual history and public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He has worked on campaigns for candidates from the Indian National Congress in the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections and was featured on GQ’s Most Influential Young Indians list in 2019. His translations of Marathi poetry have most recently been published in The World That Belongs to Us (Harper Collins, 2020).