DJ Ritu is a trailblazing broadcaster, turntablist, podcast, radio and event producer. She is the voice of the UK’s definitive independent global music show, A World in London, which just recently got a big-up from Tanita Tikaram in Mojo Magazine! Ritu’s music career spans almost 4 decades, including 22 years at the BBC, co-founding cult label Outcaste Records, signing Nitin Sawhney and Badmarsh & Shri, touring in over 35 countries with her own bands Sister India and The Asian Equation, plus performing at major venues and festivals like Glastonbury, Boiler Room, Fabric, Printworks, Big Chill, Tate Britain and Modern, the BFI, Boxpark, Spiritland, WOMAD, Royal Festival Hall, V&A, National Theatre, Jazz Café, & Trafalgar Square. She is the co-founder of the UK’s longest-running South Asian music club nights - Kuch Kuch Bollywood Nights (25 yrs) and Club Kali (30 yrs).

Manju Patel-Nair is an anti-oppression facilitator as well as an advocate for Queer South Asian histories, inspired by Black feminist thought and intersectional activism. Her work is grounded in collective liberation, cultural resilience, and joyful resistance. She challenges reductive narratives, advocating for nuanced representations of diverse identities in community, policy, and the arts. She is Co-Director of The Suryan Collective, a community-led space for LGBTQ+ South Asians, and co-founder of Swagatham, a collective for the South Indian and Sri Lankan queer diaspora. A lover of sarees and storytelling, she hosts saree draping workshops, finding joy in quirky styling, playful adornment, and fluid movement.

Charan Singh's (MFA, UCA) (PhD, RCA) research-based practice is informed by his close involvement with HIV/AIDS work and ‘queer’ community activism in India. He uses the mediums of photography, video and text to explore his 'pre-English language' gay life to understand how language shapes queer landscapes, politics of representation and legitimacies of a queer history in India. He has exhibited at New Art Gallery, Walsall; The Art House, Wakefield; New Art Exchange, Nottingham. Recently he curated a retrospective of Sunil Gupta’s work in Love and Light: A Site of Infinite Possibilities, Chennai Photo Biennale, 2025.

Sunny Singh is the author of 7 books including the highly acclaimed novel Hotel Arcadia, and A Bollywood State of Mind: A Journey into the World’s Biggest Cinema. Her short story collection, Refuge: Stories of War (And Love) will be published in August 2025. She is the founder and director of the celebrated Jhalak Prize with a portfolio of three awards, and the publisher of the bi-annual Jhalak Review. Sunny is Professor of Creative Writing and Inclusion in the Arts at London Metropolitan University.

Rohit K Dasgupta is an associate professor of gender and sexuality at the London School of economics. He is also an elected councillor in the London Borough of Newham. He is currently working on a new AHRC funded project on craft labour and equitability in India. He is the author of Digital Queer Cultures of India (Routledge, 2017) and coauthor of India's Imperial Formations (FDUP, 2024) and Desi queers (Hurst, 2025) amongst others.