Notes on contributors
Shilpi Gulati is a filmmaker, researcher and theatre artist based in New Delhi. Her work documents the realities of different regional communities in India through oral history, ethnography and socially engaged art. She is a two time winner of the President’s National Film Award in India for her documentaries Qissa-e Parsi: The Parsi Story (2014) and Taala the Kunjee: Lock and Key (2018) and has screened her work across several film festivals internationally. An actor and a core member of pandies’ theatre, a feminist group based in New Delhi, Shilpi has worked with women and young adults to investigate questions of marginality using community based theatre and media tools. Shilpi has also been a Fulbright scholar, a Tata fellow and is currently completing her PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.