New Delhi: Artists from across India have come together under the banner of ‘Artists Unite!’ and signed a declaration with the intention of reinforcing public traditions that speak “for democracy, and against hate”.
More than 450 signatories from more than 20 locations have cautioned that the ongoing assault on culture is an attack on democracy and asserted that “democracy is not a majoritarian project to identify enemies and enforce uniformity of language, behaviour and culture. Democracy is the celebration of a collective will for peace, of living together with dignity and equality”.
The signatories include a diverse list of well-known names from the field of arts in India including artists Atul Dodiya, Nalini Malini, Ranbir Kaleka, Sudhir Patwardhan, Venkat Raman Singh Shyam and Vivan Sundaram; art critic and historian Geeta Kapur; dancers Aditi Mangaldas, Astad Deboo, Mallika Sarabhai and Navtej Johar; film-makers Anand Patwardhan, Chitra Palekar, Kabir Khan, Kiran Rao, Nandita Das, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Shonali Bose and; screenwriters Anjum Rajabali, Vinay Shukla and Shama Zaidi; actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah; musicians Neela Bhagwat, Rahul Ram, T.M. Krishna and Vidya Rao; and photographers Dayanita Singh and Sudharak Olwe.
“As artists and cultural practitioners were-dedicate ourselves at this critical moment to defend a culture that speaks of love, equality and solidarity. We will fight hate with love. We will counter violence with peace. Through our images, speech, words, music and bodies we will resist the cultural destruction of India,” the declaration reads.
Read the full declaration below:
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In India’s recent history the politics of hate, division and exclusion has never been so dominant as we find it today, with a poisonous ideology which informs it deeply entrenched into the state and in governance. Never before has hate been directed with such calculated intent against Muslims, Christians, Adivasis, Dalits, women, trans people, people in conflict areas and even children.
The right to life, the right to love, food choices, cultural expression, language and histories are all under assault by this politics, which is at war with the people of India and their diverse cultures. Cultural and social life in India is being torn asunder by a toxic cocktail of propaganda, violence, censorship and distorted histories.
India is a uniquely rich repository of cultures that evolved out of long histories of philosophical, religious, literary, linguistic and artistic encounters. Those who wish to subsume politics into the imperatives of populist regression are attacking all aspects of this culture, which stands firmly in opposition to their idea of a monolithic and exclusionist India. New cultural narratives are being spawned by this ideology of hate, imbued with a sense of victimhood, revenge, aggression, and violence that has manifested itself in many forms, from horrific acts of lynching to the murderous attacks on writers and artists, the violent disruption of cultural events, destruction of educational and cultural institutions and the rewriting of school text-books. The emancipatory and spiritual possibilities of culture are being replaced by a language that relies solely on war cries, propaganda, and the images, metaphors, visions and sounds of supremacy.
The ongoing assault on culture is an attack on democracy. When cultural life is attacked democracy itself is in peril because of the disappearance of a language that articulates our shared spiritual and social lives, shared histories and shared memories. Democracy is not a majoritarian project to identify enemies and enforce uniformity of language, behaviour and culture. Democracy is the celebration of a collective will for peace, of living together with dignity and equality.
As artists and cultural practitioners we are and will continue to resist the politics of hate. We are and will continue to safeguard a culture that speaks of humanity and democracy; a culture that finds its echo in the fundamental rights enshrined in the Indian constitution. We recognise that the populist hate politics of today is riding the wave of disenchantment with democratic, secular political parties that have failed to deliver on the social democratic charter of the constitution. Pernicious inequalities based on class, caste, ethnicity, religion and gender not only pose a moral crisis for the country but they also reflect a political failure. Recent reports suggest that one percent of our population has appropriated 73 per cent of the wealth generated in 2017, a statistic that speaks about the state of poverty and desperation, as well as the nature of development that is being promoted in the country. An agrarian crisis is taking its toll on millions of farmers. Adivasis are being driven out of their forests. Workers lives have become ever more precarious. We are spiralling towards an ecological disaster on the back of an idea of development that has become synonymous with greed and profiteering.
We appeal to democratic, secular political parties to think anew of a politics rooted in economic and social justice; ecological and environmental sustainability; plurality and diversity; decentralisation and devolution of power; ethics, love, compassion, tolerance and the rule of law.
As artists and cultural practitioners were-dedicate ourselves at this critical moment to defend a culture that speaks of love, equality and solidarity. We will fight hate with love. We will counter violence with peace. Through our images, speech, words, music and bodies we will resist the cultural destruction of India.
- A Mangai : Theatre Activist : Tamil Nadu
- Aaradhana Kohli : Filmmaker : Noida
- Aastha Gandhi : Dancer & Researcher : Delhi
- Aayush Chandrawanshi : Photographer : Raipur
- Aban Raza : Artist : Delhi
- Achyut Vaze : Playwright : Mumbai
- Adil Jussawalla : Writer : Mumbai
- Aditi Mangaldas : Kathak Dancer &Choreographer : Delhi
- Aditya Kapoor : Filmmaker & Photographer : Delhi
- Ajay Noronha : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Ajay Raina : Filmmaker : Bangalore
- Ajayan Adat : Film Sound Designer : Thrissur
- Ajitha G. S. : Editor : Bangalore
- Akhil Katyal : Poet & Writer : New Delhi
- Akhilesh: Artist : Bhopal
- Akshaya Mukul : Author : Gurgaon
- Ali Javed : Writer : Delhi
- Alia Sinha : Visual artist : New Delhi & UK
- Amandeep Sandhu : Writer : Bangalore
- Amar Kanwar : Filmmaker : New Delhi
- Amarjit Chandan : Poet & Writer : London
- Amba Sanyal : Theatre practitioner : Delhi
- Ambarien Alqadar : Filmmaker : Rochester, US
- Amit Jain : Filmmaker : Gurgaon
- Amit Mahanti : Filmmaker : New Delhi
- Amitesh Grover : Theatre practitioner : New Delhi
- Amrita Bhalla : Literature : New Delhi
- Amrita Gupta Singh : Art Historian & Writer : Navi Mumbai
- Amrita Jha : Artist : Bihar
- Amrita Lalljee : Theatre practitioner : Delhi
- Amrita Patil : Filmmaker : New Delhi
- Amudhan R. P. : Filmmaker : Chennai
- Anand: Writer : Delhi
- Anand Patwardhan : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Ananda Lal : Publisher & Critic : Kolkata
- Anannya Tripathyi : Performing Artist : New Delhi
- Ania Loomba : Literature : Delhi
- Anil Abraham : Actor & Writer : Bangalore
- Anil Deshmukh : Theatre practitioner : Mumbai
- Anita Cherian : Art critic : Delhi
- Anita Dube : Artist : Delhi
- Anjali Monteiro : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Anjum Rajabali : Screenwriter & teacher : Mumbai
- Anmol Vellani : Theatre : Bengaluru
- Annapurna Garimella : Art Historian : Delhi
- Annu Palakunnathu Matthew : Artist : Bangalore & USA
- Anoushka Kurien : Dance : Chennai
- Anuja Ghosalkar : Performance maker : Bangalore
- Anupam Singh : Artist & Educator : Navi Mumbai & Portland
- Anupama Chandra : Film editor : New Delhi
- Anuradha Kapur : Theate practitioner : Delhi
- Anuradha Pathak : Artist & Designer : Kolkata
- Anusha Khan : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Anushka Ravishankar : Writer : Chennai
- Aradhana Seth : Production designer : Goa
- Archana Hande : Visual Artist : Mumbai
- Arjun Raina : Actor : Gurgaon
- Arjun Sajnani : Film director : Bangalore
- Arpita Das : Publisher : New Delhi
- Arshiya Sethi : Curator : Delhi
- Arun Khopkar : Filmmaker & Writer : Mumbai
- Arundhati Ghosh : Arts Support : Bangalore
- Arundhati Roy : Writer : Delhi
- Arunkumar H. G. : Artist : Gurgaon
- Arushi Singh : Dance : Los Angeles, USA
- Arvind Lodaya : Design Education : Bengaluru
- Asad Zaidi : Writer : Gurgaon
- Aseng Borang : Dance Practitioner : Delhi, Roing
- Asheesh Pandya : Sound Practitioner : Gurgaon
- Ashfaque E. J. : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Ashis Kumar Das : Artist & Animator : Mumbai
- Ashis Nandy : Writer : Delhi
- Ashish Mehta : Actor : Pune
- Ashish Paliwal : Theatre : Delhi
- Ashok Bhowmick : Artist : Delhi
- Ashok Maridas : Filmmaker : Bangalore
- Ashok Mishra : Theatre : Mumbai
- Ashok Sukumaran : Artist : Mumbai
- Ashok Tiwari : Theatre practitioner : Delhi
- Ashok Vajpeyi : Poet : Delhi
- Ashwini Malik : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Asif Ali Beg : Actor : Mumbai
- Askari Naqvi : Dastangoi : Lucknow
- Astad Deboo : Dance : Mumbai
- Atamjit : Theatre : Mohali
- Atul Bhalla : Artist : New Delhi
- Atul Dodiya : Artist : Bombay
- Atul Gupta : Filmmaker : Dehradun
- Atul Kumar : Theatre Practitioner : Mumbai-Kamshet
- Aulina Chaudhuri : Musician & Visual Artist : Delhi
- Avantika Bahl : Dance : Mumbai
- Avijit Mukul Kishore : Filmmaker & Cinematographer : Mumbai
- Avtar Singh : Writer : New Delhi
- Balan Nambiar : Sculptor & Academician : Bangalore
- Baptist Coelho : Artist : Mumbai
- Bënil Biswas : Performance : New Delhi
- Bharati Jagannathan : Historian : Delhi
- Bharati Kapadia : Artist : Mumbai
- Bhavani G. S. : Artist : Bangalore
- Bijal Vachharajani : Writer : Bangalore
- Bina Sarkar Ellias : Curator & Publisher :Mumbai
- Bishakha Datta : Writer & Filmmaker : Mumbai
- C. F. John : Artist : Bangalore
- Centre for Arts and Social Practice : :Navi Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata & Delhi
- Chaman Lal : Literature & Academic : Delhi
- Chandita Mukherjee : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Chandrakant Patil : Poet & Critic : Pune
- Chandrima Bhattacharyya : Artist : Santiniketan
- Charu Maithani : Researcher & Curator : NewDelhi
- Chetan Shah : Filmmaker : Chennai
- Chitra Palekar : Film & Theatre : Mumbai
- Claudio Maffioletti : Arts : Mumbai
- Cyrus Mistry : Writer : Mumbai
- Dadi D. Pudumjee : Puppeteer : Delhi
- Dakxin Bajrange : Theatre & Film : Ahmedabad
- Dattatreya Apte : Visual artist : Delhi
- Dayanita Singh : Artist : Delhi
- Deba Ranjan : Film Maker : Bhubaneswar
- Debalina Majumdar : Filmmaker : Kolkata
- Debjani Mukherjee : Animation & Researcher :Mumbai
- Deepa Balsavar : Writer & Illustrator :Mumbai
- Deepa Dhanraj : Filmmaker : Bangalore
- Deepa Kumaravel : Writer : Chennai
- Deepak : Dance : Mumbai
- Devaki Khanna : Editor : Gurgaon
- Devika : Actor : Chennai
- Dhiraj Pednekar : Artist : Goa
- Dhruv Sangari : Musician : Delhi
- Dhruva Mistry : Artist : Vadodara
- Dhruvi Acharya : Artist : Mumbai
- Dhwani Vij : Theatre : Delhi
- Diya Naidu : Movement & Performance :Bangalore
- Dolly Thakore : Theatre & Communication :Mumbai
- Ein Lall : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Ekta Mittal : Filmmaker & Curator :Bangalore
- Fathima Nizaruddin : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Furqan Faridi : Filmmaker : Delhi
- G. Arunima : Author : Delhi
- G. N. Devy : Writer : Dharwad
- Gagan Singh : Artist : Delhi
- Gargi Raina : Artist : Vadodara
- Gargi Sen : Filmmaker & Curator : Delhi
- Gauhar Raza : Poet & Filmmaker : Delhi
- Gauri D Chakraborty : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Gauri Gandhi : Artist : Pune
- Gauri Gill : Photographer : Delhi
- Gautam Sonti : Filmmaker : Bangalore
- Gayatri Gaia Kodikal : Artist & Filmmaker :Rotterdam & Mumbai
- Gayatri Sinha : Art Critic & Curator : Delhi
- Gee Imaan Semmalar : Theatre : Bangalore
- Geeta Kapur : Art critic & Curator : Delhi
- Geetanjali Shree : Writer : Delhi
- Gigi Scaria : Artist : Delhi
- Gitanjali Rao : Animation Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Githa Hariharan : Writer : Delhi
- Gopika Chowfla : Designer & Visual Artist :Delhi & Goa
- Greeny Francis : Theatre & Dance : Delhi
- Gulammohammed Sheikh : Artist : Vadodara
- Hans Kaushik : Artist : Chennai
- Hemanti Sarkar : Film editor : Mumbai
- Hina : Filmmaker : Goa
- Ina Kaur : Artist : Delhi & Bangalore
- Indrapramit Roy : Visual Artist : Vadodara
- Irene Dhar Malik : Film editor : Mumbai
- Ishan Tankha : Photographer : New Delhi
- Jabeen Merchant : Film editor : Mumbai
- Jahangir Asgar Jani : Visual Artist : Mumbai
- Jaideep Mehrotra : Artist : Mumbai
- Jaishree Misra : Author : London
- Jaya Iyer : Theatre practitioner : Delhi
- Jeroo Mulla : Dance : Mumbai
- Jerry Pinto : Writer, Poet & Journalist :Mumbai
- Jill Mistry : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Jinal Sangoi : Artist & Educator : Mumbai,California
- Johny ML : Art historian : Delhi &Trivandrum
- Joshua Sailo : Dance : Aizawl
- Josy Joseph : Author : New Delhi
- Joyce Gonsalves : Arts Support : Bangalore
- Juhi Jha : Theatre practitioner : Delhi
- Jyoti Dogra : Theatre practitioner : Mumbai
- K. M. Shrimali : Historian & Author : Delhi
- K. P. Jayasankar : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- K. Satchidanandan : Writer : Delhi
- K. Srilata : Poet & Academic : Chennai
- Kabir Khan : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Kamakshi Saxena : Dancer & Choreographer :Jaipur
- Karan Mahajan : Writer : New York & NewDelhi
- Karthika VK : Editor : New Delhi
- Kasturi Basu : Filmmaker : Kolkata
- Kaushik Narayan Ramanathan : Designer &Academic : Goa
- Kausik Mukhopadhyay : Artist : Mumbai
- Kaveri Bharath : Ceramic artist : Chennai
- Khalid Tyabji : Theatre : Delhi
- Khirkee Voice : Artist : Delhi
- Kiran Rao : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Kirtana Kumar : Actor : Bangalore
- Komita Dhanda : Theatre practitioner : Delhi
- Konarak Reddy : Musician : Bangalore
- Krishna Devanandan : Arts : Auroville
- Kristine Michael : Ceramic Artist : New Delhi
- Kriti Pant : Theatre Artist : Delhi
- Kumar Mukesh : Writer : Kaithal
- Lalit Vachani : Filmmaker : Göttingen, Germany
- Lalitha Krishna : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Leandre DSouza : Arts : Mumbai
- Leena Chethan : Artist : Bangalore
- Leena Manimekalai : Filmmaker & Poet :Chennai
- Lokesh Jain : Theatre practitioner : Delhi
- Madan Gopal Singh : Musician : Gurgaon
- Madan Meena : Folklore Researcher : Kota
- Madhu Bhushan : Writer & Filmmaker :Bangalore
- Madhusudhanan : Artist & Filmmaker : Delhi
- Madhvi Subrahmanian : Artist : Mumbai
- Maheen Mirza : Cinematographer : Bhopal
- Mahesh Dattani : Theatre : Mumbai
- Mahesh Elkunchwar : Theatre : Nagpur
- Mahesh Rao : Writer : Mysore
- Maitri Gopalakrishna : Theatre : Bangalore
- Makarand Sathe : Writer : Pune
- Malini Kochupillai : Artist : Delhi
- Mallika Sarabhai : Dance : Ahmedabad
- Mana Dhanraj Contractor : Musician : Bangalore
- Manasee Palshikar Nadi : Writer : Pune
- Manasi Pingle : Filmmaker : Bangalore
- Mandeep Raikhy : Dance : New Delhi
- Mangalesh Dabral : Poet : Delhi
- Manishikha Baul : Performing artist : Gurgaon
- Manjima Chatterjee : Writer : Noida
- Mariam Karim Ahlawat : Writer & Playwright :Delhi
- Maya Krishna Rao : Theatre artist : Delhi
- Meena Kandasamy : Poet, Writer & Translator: Chennai
- Meena Malhotra : Arts Education : Kolkata
- Meena Subramaniam : Artist : Kumily Town, Kerala
- Meera Chaudhary : Film maker : Delhi
- Meera Devidayal : Artist : Mumbai
- Mercy Kappen : Eco Art : Bangalore
- Michal Glikson : Visual artist : India &Asutralia
- Mithu Sen : Artist : Delhi
- Mohit Satyanand : Actor : Delhi
- Moloyashree Hashmi : Theatre : New Delhi
- Monali Meher : Artist : Belgium
- Monika Talukdar : Artist : Dehradun
- Moushumi Bhowmik : Singer & Writer : Kolkata
- Mukul Kesavan : Writer : Delhi
- Murli Chandora : Artist : Bangalore
- Nalini Malani : Artist : Mumbai
- Nandini Bhattacharya : Academician : West Bengal
- Nandita Das : Film director & Actor : Mumbai
- Nandita Krishna : Art writer : Bangalore
- Narayani Gupta : Author : Delhi
- Naseeruddin Shah : Actor : Mumbai
- Navroze Contractor : Filmmaker : Bangalore
- Navtej Singh Johar : Dancer & Choreographer: Delhi
- Neel Chaudhuri : Theatre : Delhi
- Neel Sengupta : Theatre : New Delhi
- Neela Bhagwat : Musician : Mumbai
- Neelima Sharma : Theatre & Film : Gurgaon
- Neha Choksi : Artist : Bombay & Los Angeles
- Nibha Sikander : Artist : Mumbai
- Nicholas Hoffland : Writer & Cook : NewDelhi
- Nicky Chandam : Photographer & Writer :Delhi
- Nikhil Purohit : Artist : Mumbai
- Nikita Maheshwary : Dance : Delhi
- Nilima Sheikh : Artist : Vadodara
- Nirmal Chander : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Nirmala Biluka : Artist : Hyderabad
- Nityan Unnikrishnan : Artist : Delhi
- Noopur Desai : Art Writer & Researcher :Pune
- Noor Zaheer : Writer & Theatre Activist :Ghaziabad
- Oli Ghosh : Artist & Art Educator : Mumbai
- Orijit Sen : Artist : Delhi & Goa
- Padmini Chettur : Dance : Chennai
- Pankaj Srivastava : Poet & Writer : Delhi
- Paromita Vohra : Filmmaker & Writer : Mumbai
- Parul Kiri Roy : Architect & Art Historian :Delhi
- People Tree : – : Delhi & Goa
- Ponni Arasu : Theatre Performer : Chennai
- Prabhakar Pachpute : Artist : Pune
- Pradeep L Mishra : Artist : Mumbai
- Pradip Krishen : Writer : New Delhi
- Prasad Natarajan : Photographer : Bangalore
- Praveen Raj : Scriptwriter : Mumbai
- Preethi Athreya : Dance : Chennai
- Premjish Achari : Curator & Critic : NewDelhi
- Priyanka Chhabra : Filmmaker : Delhi &Manali
- Pulapre Balakrishnan : Academic : Kozhikode
- Purabi Bose : Filmmaker & Academic : Mumbai
- Purushottam Agrawal : Author & Academic :Delhi
- Pushpa Achanta : Writer : Bangalore
- Pushpamala N. : Artist : Bangalore
- Radhika Menon : Publisher : Chennai
- Raghav Kohli : Art curator : Delhi
- Rahil Bhardwaj : Actor : Mumbai
- Rahul Ram : Musician : Delhi
- Rahul Roy : Filmmaker : Gurgaon
- Raj Kumar Mazinder : Artist : Silchar
- Rajyashri Goody : Visual Artist : Pune
- Rakesh Sharma : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Ram Rehman : Photographer & Curator : Delhi
- Ramyendu Kumar Das : Artist : Agartala
- Ranbir Kaleka : Artist : Mumbai
- Ranjana Dave : Dance : Delhi
- Rashmi Kaleka : Artist : Noida
- Rashmi Sawhney : Film Theorist : Bangalore
- Ratna Pathak Shah : Actor : Mumbai
- Ravikumar : Writer & Former Legislator :Tamilnadu
- Ravinder Randhawa : Screenwriter & Filmmaker: Mumbai
- Reena Mohan : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Richa Jha : Author : Noida
- Rihaa Kaur : Writer : Delhi
- Rini Tandon : Artist : Vienna
- Rongili Biswas : Musician & Writer : Kolkata
- Ruchi Narain : Writer & Director : Mumbai
- Ruchika Negi : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Ruchira Gupta : Writer : New York
- Saba Dewan : Filmmaker : Gurgaon
- Saba Hasan : Artist : Delhi
- Sabeena Gadihoke : Filmmaker & Academic :New Delhi
- Sabitha Satchi : Writer : New Delhi
- Sachin Karne : Artist : Vadodara
- Sadhana Raddi : Painter : Mumbai
- Saeed Akhtar Mirza : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Safina Uberoi : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Sahej Rahal : Artist : Mumbai
- Sajeev Visweswaran : Artist : Delhi &Michigan
- Samara Chopra : Musician : Delhi
- Sameera Iyengar : Theatre & Arts Facilitator: Mumbai
- Sameera Jain : Film editor & Filmmaker : Delhi
- Samina Mishra : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Samindranath Majumdar : Artist : Kolkata
- Samira Gupta : Scriptwriter : Delhi
- Sandhya Bordewekar : Arts Writer & Curator :Vadodara
- Sanjay Barnela : Filmmaker : Bangalore
- Sanjay Joshi : Film Activist & Publisher :Ghaziabad
- Sanjay Kak : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Sanjay Maharishi : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Sanjay Rajoura : Stand-up Artist : Delhi
- Sanjeev Khandekar : Artist : Mumbai
- Sanjeev Kumar : Writer : Delhi
- Sanjiv Shah : Filmmaker : Ahmedabad
- Sapna Bhatia : Filmmaker : Noida
- Sarada Natarajan : Art Historian : Bangalore
- Sarah Naqvi : Artist : Mumbai
- Sarita Chouhan : Artist : Mumbai
- Satya Rai Nagpaul : Cinematographer : Mumbai
- Shabari Rao : Performance Artist : Bangalore
- Shabnam Hashmi : Social activist : Delhi
- Shabnam Virmani : Filmmaker & Singer :Bangalore
- Shaheen Ahmed : Filmmaker : Calicut
- Shaibani Azam : Animator & Academic : Delhi
- Shaina Anand : Filmaker & Artist : Mumbai
- Shakun Doundiyakhed : Social Activist :Bangalore
- Shakuntala Kulkarni : Visual artist : Mumbai
- Shalini Advani : Education : Noida
- Shama Zaidi : Screenwriter : Mumbai
- Shamsul Islam : Theatre & Film : Gurgaon
- Shamya Dasgupta : Author : Bangalore
- Shanta Gokhale : Writer : Mumbai
- Shanthamani Muddaiah : Visual artist : Bangalore
- Sharan Devkar Shankar : Photographer &Filmmaker : Chennai
- Sharmila Samant : Artist : Greater Noida
- Sharmistha Saha : Theatre : Mumbai
- Shashi Deshpande : Writer : Bangalore
- Shashwati Talukdar : Filmmaker : Dehradun
- Shaunak Mahbubani : Curator : Delhi
- Sheba Chhachhi : Artist : Delhi
- Sheetal Gattani : Painter : Mumbai
- Sheila Makhijani : Artist : Delhi
- Shena Gamat : Actor : Mumbai
- Sherna Dastur : Designer & Filmmaker : Delhi
- Shilpa Gupta : Artist : Mumbai
- Shireen Gandhy : Curator : Mumbai
- Shiv Ahuja : Photographer : Gurgaon
- Shiva Pathak : Actor & Arts Manager :Bangalore
- Shivaji K Panikkar : Art Historian : Delhi
- Shohini Ghosh : Filmmaker & Academic : Delhi
- Shoma A. Chatterji : Author : Kolkata
- Shonali Bose : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Shruthi Vishwanath : Music : Pune
- Shuddhabrata Sengupta : Artist : Delhi
- Shukla Sawant : Artist & Academic : Delhi
- Shweta Ghosh : Filmmaker : Pune, UK
- Sidharth Sarcar : Architect : Delhi
- Simrat Dugal : Artist : Delhi
- Sindhu Thirumalaisamy : Artist & Filmmaker : San Diego
- Smita Urmila Rajmane : Artist : Delhi
- Smriti Nevatia : Film curator & Writer :Mumbai
- Sohail Akbar : Photographer & Academic :Delhi
- Sohail Hashmi : Writer & Film-Maker : Delhi
- Somak Ghoshal : Journalist : Bengaluru
- Sonali Jha Chatterjee : Theatre : Delhi
- Sonia Rashid : Ceramist : Bhopal
- Subasri Krishnan : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Subba Ghosh : Artist & Animator : Delhi
- Subhendu Dasgupta : Poster art : Kolkata
- Subhendu Ghosh : Musician : Delhi
- Subodh Kerkar : Artist : Goa
- Subodh Lal : Poet : Noida
- Subrata Beura : Film Activist : Bhubaneswar
- Sudhanva Deshpande : Theatre & Publishing :Delhi
- Sudharak Olwe : Photographer : Mumbai
- Sudheer Gupta : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Sudhir Patwardhan : Painter : Mumbai
- Sunanda Bhat : Filmmaker : Bangalore
- Sunandini Banerjee : Editor & Designer :Kolkata
- Sunil Shanbag : Theatre : Mumbai
- Surabhi Sharma : Filmmaker : Mumbai
- Surajit Sarkar : Video Artist & Academician: Delhi
- Surendran Nair : Artist : Vadodara
- Suresh B. V. : Fine Arts : Hyderabad
- Suresh Jayaram : Art historian : Bangalore
- Surjit Nongmeikapam (Bon) : Choreographer :Imphal
- Sushama Veerappa : Filmmaker : Bangalore
- Syeda Hameed : Writer & Social activist :Delhi
- Sylvia Karpagam : Artist & Doctor :Bangalore
- T. M. Krishna : Musician : Chennai
- Tallur L. N. : Visual artist : Bengaluru &Seoul
- Taru Dalmia : Musician : Delhi
- Tarun Bhartiya : Poet & Imagemaker :Shillong
- Teena Gill : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Tulika Aasma : Visual Artist : Vadodara, Hyderabad & Delhi
- Tushar Joag : Artist : Greater Noida
- Udayan Mukherjee : Writer & Journalist :Mumbai, Nainital
- Udit Yadav : Dastango : Delhi
- Uma Chakravarti : Filmmaker & Academic :Delhi
- Urmimala Sarkar : Dance : Delhi
- Usha Desai : Translator : Mumbai
- Usha Ramaswamy : Author & Architect :Bangalore
- Usha Rao : Filmmaker : Bangalore
- V. Arasu : Academic : Tamilnadu
- Vaasanthi : Writer & Journalist : Delhi
- Vaishali Narkar : Artist : Mumbai
- Vani Subramanian : Filmmaker : New Delhi
- Varun Aiyer : Music & Performance : India
- Varunika Saraf : Artist : Hyderabad
- Venkat Raman Singh Shyam : Artist : Bhopal
- Venu Arora : Film maker & Radio Activist :Faridabad
- Vibha Galhotra : Artist : Delhi
- Vidisha : Artist & Curator : Delhi
- Vidya Rao : Musician & Publisher : Delhi
- Vijay Prashad : Writer & Editor : Delhi
- Vikram Iyengar : Dancer & Curator : Kolkata
- Vinay Shukla : Scriptwriter & Filmmaker :Mumbai
- Vineet Tiwari : Cultural Activist : Delhi
- Vinod Raja : Film maker : Bengaluru
- Vinod Ranganath : Scriptwriter : Mumbai
- Virkein Dhar : Performer : Delhi
- Vishal Kumaraswamy : New Media Artist :Bangalore
- Vishnu Nagar : Writer : Delhi
- Vivan Sundaram : Artist : Delhi
- Vivek Gupta : Art historian : London
- Vivek Shanbhag : Author : Bangalore
- Walter Dsouza : Artist : Goa
- Yash Bhandari : Sculptor : Bangalore
- Yolanda de Sousa Kammermeier : Painter &Installation Artist : Goa
- Yousuf Saeed : Filmmaker : Delhi
- Zui Kumar-Reddy : Artist : Bangalore