Education
Diploma in Creative Writing | Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication | New Delhi | 2022
B.Pharm | Amity University | Noida, Delhi | 2018
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Awards, Fellowships, and Residencies
The Sonny and Gita Mehta Indian Scholarship | University of East Anglia| 2024
Prince Claus Seed Award (Recipient)| Prince Claus Funds |2023
Toto Awards Creative Writing English (Long-listed) | Toto Funds the Arts| 2023
Queer Muslim Futures Residency Programme | The Queer Muslim Project| Goethe Institute | 2022
Transmitterance Sound/Radio Art Fellowship | Drishti Media, Conflictorium| 2020
Jijivisha Teaching Fellowship | Slam out Loud| 2018
Exhibitions
Norient City Sounds | Khoj Studios| Delhi| 2023
Transmitterance Radio Festival |Drishti Media|Ahmedabad| 2021
Abhivyakti Arts City Festival |Abhivyakti, The City Arts Project| Ahmedabad| 2022
Featured Writings
The Bombay Literary Magazine: Death in Etawah (short story)
Vogue India- Author Profile
Amma and I: Repairing, bonding, repairing?
The rain has loved me like a daughter since the day I was born.
Pride Month 2022: What it means to be queer and Muslim in Delhi.
On Eid 2022, I realised the magnitude of my mother's badassery and perseverance.
How picnic spots in Delhi are encouraging individualism and self-introspection.
The Gulmohur Quarterly: Two poems of Parveen Shakir, translated from Urdu to English by Afreen Akhtar
The Curator Mag |Review of 'When Abba was Ill by Adil Hassan
Performance, Shows, and Panels
Speaker at TEDx Gateway, 2018 (NSCI, Mumbai)
Performer at Spoken Fest, Delhi, 2020
Panelist at “Time for India’s #metoo movement? The Urban Debate’ Mirror Now, 4th October, 2018.
Collaboration with Team Works Art and Stephan Kaye to write, perform and enact 'Dupatta', an earlier spoken word poetry piece in a video to garner charity for The Kathputli Colony of Delhi.
Speaker at TEDx Gurugram Women, 2018
Speaker at UN Women #hearmetoo campaign 2018, Stein Auditorium, Delhi
Performed at The Wire’s 2nd Anniversary, 2019
Panelist at NGAGE'21, Arts and Literature- Expression and Emotion
Panellist at She The People’s Women Writers Fest 2020
Panelist at Imagine 2018, a conference held by Children First India (Focus at Child and Adolescent Mental Health)
Spoken Word Poetry performances for Tape a Tale in cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Surat, Ahmedabad, Roorkie, etc.
Selected Media Mentions
Feminism in India
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