Niyati Bhat is a writer, poet, translator (Hindi and Kashmiri into English), and film scholar of Kashmiri Pandit descent from New Delhi, India. She is a 2024 Fellow in Writing and Translation at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is also a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University and holds an MPhil in Cinema Studies and an MA in Arts and Aesthetics (Visual Arts, Theatre and Cinema Studies) from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her work has been published in leading Indian and international journals such as The Swinging Seventies: Stars, Style and Substance in Hindi Cinema (Om Books, 2024), A Map Called Home ( poetry anthology, 2018), India Today, The Hindu, Scroll.in, Vogue India, The Established, Outlook Magazine, Asymptote Journal, SummerHill Journal, among others. She is the recipient of the 2024-25 Villa Swagatam French Writing Residency at Villa Gillet, France; the 2024 Fellowship in Literature and Translation by the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) and Literature Across Frontiers (LAF) in Wales, UK and the 2014 Michael Nagler Metta Centre for Non Violence Media Fellowship. She has presented her 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.

She is currently writing her first book, which is an ancestral memoir on the women of Kashmir spanning two centuries.

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