I am an arts and cultural researcher, writer, translator (Hindi and Kashmiri to English) and editor of Kashmiri Pandit origin from New Delhi, India. I have been selected as the Writer-in-Residence at Villa Gillet (Lyon, France) in 2025. In 2024, I was a Visiting Writing & Translation Fellow at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. I am also a PhD Candidate in Cinema Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. My PhD dissertation engages with the cinematic imagination of the Sri Lankan civil war and its aftermath. I hold an MPhil in Cinema Studies and an MA in Arts and Aesthetics (Visual Arts, Theatre & Film Studies) from JNU and a BA (Hons) Mass Media and Mass Communication from IP College for Women, University of Delhi.

My work has appeared in leading Indian and international publications such as the A Map Called Home (poetry anthology), India Today, The Hindu, Scroll.in, Vogue India, The Established, Outlook Magazine, Asymptote Journal, SummerHill Journal among others. I have presented my work on Kashmiri music and Indian cinema at Harvard University’s Graduate Music Forum, Digital Politics in Millennial India hosted by LMU Germany, Jamia Millia Islamia International Conference 2020 and Association for Asian Studies Conference 2020. I have been awarded the 2025 “Villa Swagatam writing residency” , the 2024 “Literary and Translation fellowship” by Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) and Literature Across Frontiers (LAF) and 2014 “Media fellowship” at Michael Nagler’s Metta Centre for Non Violence.

For interview enquiries or to commission writing projects, essays, book reviews, film reviews, articles or interviews and editorial and manuscript consulting enquiries, please write to me on the contact form mentioned on the website or DM me on Instagram @niyati_bhat.