Passion With Aditi Pant (Learning to Be)

Pervin Saket is the author of the novel ‘Urmila’ and of the poetry collection ‘A Tinge of Turmeric’. She is the 2021 Fellow for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, and was shortlisted for the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2020. Her novel has been adapted for the stage, featuring classical Indian dance forms of Kathak, Bharatnatyam and Odissi. Her work has been featured in ‘The Indian Quarterly’, ‘The Joao-Roque Literary Journal’, ‘Paris Lit Up’, ‘Singapore Unbound’, ‘Usawa Literary Review’, ‘Tiferet’, and elsewhere. Pervin works as an editor for textbooks for primary, middle and senior school Boski Jain is a visual designer and illustrator from Bhopal. She did her undergraduate from Symbiosis Institute of Design and completed a Masters from the Indian Institute of Bombay in 2016, specializing in communication design. She has illustrated 10 children's picture books so far. She likes studying and incorporating different styles of Indian folk art in her work using bright colors and patterns.