Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature, the Department of English, King’s College London, and winner of India’s Infosys Prize for the Humanities (2018), and of the Humboldt Research Prize from the Alexander van Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2019). She is currently writing a monograph ‘Alegropolitics: Creolising Connection on the Afro- Modern Dance Floor’. She works on creolisation as a historical process and cultural theory. In May 2020, Ari and Ananya co-founded the cultural platform le thinnai kreyol, through which they promote their vision of a multilingual, plural, and creolised India.