Our Team

Mita Kapur: CEO
Mita Kapur is a freelance journalist regularly featured in many newspapers and magazines. She covers social and developmental issues along with travel, food and lifestyle humor stories. She has co-directed and directed the Jaipur Literature Festival in the years 2006 and 2007. She is the founder and CEO of Siyahi, a literary consultancy where she doubles up as a literary agent along with conceptualising and directing literary events.

Namita Gokhale: Founder Director (Translating Bharat)
Namita Gokhale is a multi-faceted Indian novelist and publisher, and author of Paro: Dreams of Passion, Gods, Graves and Grandmother, A Himalayan Love Story, The Book of Shadows, The Book of Shiva and Shakuntala: The Play of Memory. She is a partner in Yatra Books. Namita helped organise the first ever International Festival of Indian Literature, Neemrana 2002, and the Africa Asia Writers’ Conference, Neemrana 2006.  She also helped design and programme the Jaipur Literature Festival, 2006 and 2007 and co-directed the festival for 2008, 2009 and is continuing to do so. She is the Founder Director for Translating Bharat.

Neeta Gupta: Director (Languages)
Neeta Gupta is a publisher at Yatra Books. Besides translating and contributing to various magazines, she has been the editor of Bhartiya Anuvad Parishad's quarterly journal on translation Anuvaad. Yatra Books has been co-ordinating the Indian Languages Publishing Programme of Penguin Books India. They have published over a hundred books in Hindi, Urdu & Marathi. These books have been published both in translation as well as in the original languages.

Jaya Bhattacharji: Literary Director
Jaya Bhattacharji is currently Editorial Manager, Journals, South Asia for Routledge, Taylor and Francis Books. She was earlier the Commissioning Editor and Marketing, Promotions and Publicity Director for Zubaan, an imprint of Kali for Women. She has also been a Guest Editor for Folklife, a quarterly for the National Folklore Centre as well as the Children and Young Adult Books Special of The Book Review. She has been a member and workshop co-ordinator of Desilit as well as the Scholastic Writing Awards jury.

Pramod Kumar KG was the Director of the first Jaipur International Literature Festival in 2006. He is also the Founder-Director of the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing, Jaipur and is currently the Associate Director of the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi and Curator for the City Palace Museum, Udaipur.

Neerja Misra: Literary Director
Neerja Misra, a Fulbright Fellow, has been Head of the Dept. of English and Vice-Principal, Kanoria College, Jaipur. Currently, she is involved with Bodh, an NGO working for primary education. She has translated both prose and poetry from Hindi and Rajasthani and has edited a number of publications.

Hitesh Kanwar: Creative Head
Hitesh is a post graduate in Journalism and Mass Communications. She reads and edits manuscripts, handles communication with the press and authors, and manages the content for Siyahi's website. Her articles have appeared in Platform, Outlook Hindi, DNA and Hardnews.

Aditi Goyal: Event Head
Aditi completed her PG in Event Management, Advertising and Media from Mumbai. She manages the logistics for all of Siyahi's events. She also coordinates the PR and does human resource management for Siyahi.

Meenakshi Singh: Research Coordinator
Meenakshi is a post-graduate in English Literature from the University of Delhi. She handles the research work for Siyahi.

Mihir Manker: Tech. & Advertising Consultant
Yogesh Narula & Ravindra Nath Jha: Senior Consultants for Public Relations

Editors - Consultants
Rajul Bhargava
Rajul has 38 years of experience teaching ELT and Literature and her work has been published widely, nationally and internationally. Her areas of specialisation include course designing, curriculum development and material production in ESF, translation theory and practice, women's writing, diasporic writing and narratology.

Meera Kumar 
Meera is a Corporate Communications professional. She has worked for U.S. multinationals, academic start-ups, Fortune 500, multi-lateral banks and has worked with leading media outlets world-wide, for example: the Wall Street Journal, NBC and the BBC.  

Shubhangi Swarup
Shubhangi is a post graduate with an M.Sc - Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS, University of London. She has worked with the UNHCR in UK, Save the Children, India and done social research for production houses in the UK and China. She currently heads the community group Hamara Footpath and is working with Open, a monthly magazine.

Deepa Vanjani
Deepa is an educator with a Ph.D. and M. Phil. in English Literature and has experience in teaching at various academic levels. She has presented papers like Socio-Historical Realities and Literature, The Bellow Hero: A Quest for Identity, The World of Lost Innocence in the Short Fiction of Ruskin Bond.

Rashmi Sahi
Rashmi is based in Hong Kong, where she is teaching at various academic levels. She has a Ph.D, M. Phil. and Masters in English Literature. She has presented papers like Mother - Daughter Relationship in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande, Grace Under Pressure, Breaking the Sati Savitri Image in the novels of Shashi Deshpande, Human Relationship in the novels of Shashi Deshpande.

Atiqa Kelsy
Atiqa is a lecturer with a keen interest in dramatics. She has been the Editor of college magazines and incharge of various forums like The Communication Club, The Publication Club and The Book Review Club at Amity College.

Divya Walia
Divya is currently a lecturer of English at International College for Girls, Jaipur. She also taught at Mody College, Laxmangarh and Mittal College, Sardarshahar. She is pursuing Ph.D. from Rajasthan University and Post-Graduate Diploma in Instructional Design from Symbiosis, Pune. 

Sweta Srivastava Vikram
Sweta is an author, poet, writer, blogger, and marketing professional living in New York City. Aside from a book of poetry, Pabulum, Sweta's work has been published or is forthcoming in publications across India, USA, and UK. Sweta is a graduate of Columbia University in New York. She serves on the board of DesiLit, a literary organization that builds support for South Asian and Diaspora writers.