Avid Learning @ Serendipity Arts Festival GOA 2017

Mustansir Dalvi was born in Bombay. He teaches architecture in Mumbai. He has lectured, read and published several papers and books on architectural pedagogy and architectural history. Through columns in The Hindu, scroll.in and The Wire (and formerly Time Out Mumbai and FirstPost) he casts a critical eye on Mumbai in its current post-planning avatar. He is an editor, an anglophone poet and translator. His poems (and translations) are anthologized, amongst others in These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry, The Bigbridge Online Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry and Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry. His translation of Muhammad Iqbal’s Shikwa and Jawaab-e-Shikwa from the Urdu (Penguin Classics) has been described as “insolent and heretical”. His translations of Hemant Divate’s poems from the Marathi are published as Struggles with imagined gods. Brouhahas of Cocks is his first book of poems in English.

David de Souza has been a commercial photographer for the past 15 years. He has produced 8 monographs and 4 commissioned books. He was also the field director of ‘Picture Mumbai’: Landmarks of a new generation a Getty Conservation Institute Initiative.