Shilpa Ranade is an illustrator and an Associate Professor at the Industrial Design Centre at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. A graduate of the well-renowned JJ Institute of Applied Art, Shilpa completed her postgraduate studies at IIT Bombay and Royal College of Art, London. A talented animator and film-maker, Shilpa’s works have been exhibited at various national and international film festivals, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Tokyo Short Film Festival etc.
Kaushik Viswanath is a writer from Chennai, India currently pursuing an MFA in fiction writing at the University of Notre Dame. He also holds an MA in English from IIT Madras. From 2008-2013, he wrote a satire column called Dr K’s Cure for Sanity for the New Indian Express, a leading newspaper in India. He has been published in anthologies by Scholastic India and Penguin India.