Site & Content Editors
The lovely ladies at CES keeping this up
Priscilla Khapai
A self-confessed aesthete, Priscilla is a final year MA student at CES. Multitalented, she is currently Head of the Tech Team and in addition to building this site, she was the main editor for all our web pages in this inaugural issue: design, maintenance, and everything in between. She enjoys poetic prose and prosaic poetry; cinema and photography. An avid reader, literature remains the bedrock of her life.
She'd like to thank her dogs, Cooper and Roscoe, for all the emotional support during the months that took in creating everything.
She'd also like to give a special shoutout to Neha Dubey who helped in editing this page and hopefully will become an active partner from the next issue.
insta: sochuiwonpriscilla
Mani Dixit
Having completed her MA in English from JNU, Mani Dixit is now a research scholar at IIT Kanpur. An admirer of the poetic form and a museum enthusiast, Mani has great interest in writing and editing. She was the editor for her college magazine for three years and has also edited two novels. She likes to write about everything that we often miss in the mundane, and loves to experiment with genre, style and rhythm. Her work has been published in City and the UNIverse Journal. She believes in the power of poetry, paintings and people. One can find her romanticizing her city, or in stationery shops!
dixit.mani242@gmail.com
Instagram: mani_dixit
Saundarya
That indecisive being you always see in the background resonating Sappho's "two states of mind in me". Defying my instagram handle "godotnahiaaya", I still hope for that moment to never come when there'll be nothing left to wait for.
saundaryasandy18@gmail.com
Instagram: godotnahiaaya
Rittika Dhar
Love, reading, writing, travelling and all kinds of food. Introverted and shy, typical wallflower. Aim to be a full-time writer someday if I have the patience to actually finish a story. Hardcore romantic although few would suspect it.
Shahana Khatoon
A lover of prose and poetry, Shahana identifies herself with Anne Sexton's famous lines famous lines, "a woman who writes feels too much, those trances and portents!"
She believes everything in this world has the potential to be penned down in the form of poetry. In this chaotic world, she is trying to weave poems for herself and her readers. Well, she thinks poetry can cure anything, even your broken heart.
She is currently pursuing her Masters in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Jeevanjot Kaur Nagpal
If you ask me, I'm in a transitional phase at the moment, in between places, dramatic life stages. A student still, but also a working professional, forever on the look-out for new and interesting stories and work. If you want to find me, look for me within the pages of books, or else, weaving poetry with awry words. Or else, I'll be sitting in a corner, doodling in my journal, a total misfit, invisible to the world. I have a superpower too, it's my girl network. We feed on empathy, kindness, and mutual love.
nagpaljeevanjot@gmail.com
Instagram: jeevanjotnagpal
Ahona Das
In the pandemic, Ahona has relocated to the birdhouse as a permanent fiction-eater and poetrywatcher. Hailing from Kolkata, she recently graduated from The Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and is struggling to accept the fact that there will be no more classes. These days, she spends her time learning new things about gaming, technology, Percy Jackson and Manga from school-going zen-y and calls it "taking classes". There are few things in life that she holds dear: the refuge of books, the resilience of friendships and anything that makes her feel alive. When not in the Birdhouse, she prefers to rest under solitary skies.
Instagram: aahonaaa
Insta: Sylviaroy
sylviaroy@gmail.com
Abhilasha Roy
Clad in oversized clothes and round scientist glasses, Abhilasha can be found balancing things– herself and as many projects as she can grab with her small hands. An extroverted introvert as her friends call her, she likes being a homebody, reading Murakami, scrolling through Tumblr, and binge-watching K-drama. When not struggling with deadlines, she likes to go on picnics with her friends.
Instagram: rhyma_
Shreya Sharma
When you're walking with Shreya, you will find a) that she walks very fast b) she stops to pick up fallen flowers off the street and c) she doesn't know her directions at all. But what she does know is how to drape the perfect saree (or so she likes to think) and places on campus where one can find wholesome fresh fruit juice.
If you find this paragraph random and muddled, wait till you meet her.
Her disorderly self loves Room 16. Not only does Room 16 avidly listen to all her incoherent stories, but this hallowed classroom has also gifted her some wonderful people to share them with. For this, more than any other reason, she plans to occupy a teeny-tiny corner of this room for eternity. In exchange, Room 16 can take as much space as it wants in her heart! Shreya firmly believes that this has been the best trade deal, in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.
sharma.shreya8080@gmail.com
Instagram: __shreyasharma__
Page edits and layout credit: Neha Dubey & Priscilla
An overbrimming vessel of countless dreams, you'll find her conjuring dreams day in and night out. So much so that, from mumbling in her sleep to living her best life speaking on stage, she's been in an irrevocable relationship with all things poetry, performance, and passion since long. Probably this 'dream interpretation' can decode her nature of contradictions- She can be a sloth and a hustler, introverted and a public speaker and practical while being a blind Bollywood lover, hehe. A worshipper of Sylvia Plath and one of those who believes the dragon only flew an alive Daenerys Targaryen to a better place, her epitaph for sure would be- Amor Vincit Omnia.
For learning is love and love alone is radical. Magical.