A World of Many Loves: ‘Polyamory In India’

Arundhati Ghosh is a writer, cultural practitioner, social activist, and traveller. With three decades of experience in the arts and culture, she served as the executive director of India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) between 2013 and 2023. She contributed on advisory boards of the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Blind with Camera, and Toto Funds the Arts, and continues to do so for The Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Shomokaleen Protibidhan (a feminist magazine in Bangla), the Solidarity Foundation, Sangama, and Maraa.

She volunteers with citizen initiatives that work towards an equitable society; speaks on the arts and philanthropy across international platforms; and writes for various publications. A poet in Bangla, publishing in little magazines since 2010, her collection of poetry, Oshomoye Phire Esho Nodi Hoye, was published by Lastrada Prakashan in 2023. Her book All Our Loves: Journeys with Polyamory India, was published by Aleph Book Company in 2025. She consults and offers training programmes for the cultural and not-for-profit sector. She was raised in Asansol and is based in Bengaluru.

Anita Cheria has worked in the social sector for over three decades, engaging with a range of grassroots groups, movements, and communities across India. Her work is shaped by a strong gender lens and a commitment to justice, with a focus on amplifying marginalised voices and building sustainable, community-led responses to systemic inequality.
She is currently a local consultant for the Norwegian Human Rights Fund (NHRF) and is associated with the Justice Coalition of Religious. Anita is also on the board of Transform Trade, bringing valuable experience in policy, advocacy, and movement building.

Trained in human rights, humanitarian law, sociology, and economics, Anita’s learning continues to be shaped by close engagement with people’s lived realities. Her writing and research emerge from this deep listening—particularly around issues of caste, patriarchy, labour, and faith-based institutions.