Dakhalandazi is an essay collection that interrogates gender based violence in Punjab and strives to articulate a nascent Punjabi feminism.

Nikita Azad (they/she) is a writer and researcher from Punjab, who often writes about gender, sexuality, selfhood, and the natural world. She is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of History, Oxford University where she’s working on histories of medicine, science, & gender in colonial Punjab. As a Rhodes Scholar, Nikita did a master’s in Women’s Studies and a master’s in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from Oxford. She is also a Nan Shepherd Prize longlisted author for a book project on human-nonhuman relationships. Her writings have appeared in Aeon, The Willowherb Review, Dust Poetry Magazine, Quince Magazine, History Workshop Journal, The Quint, The Indian Express, and more.

Amy Singh is a poet, podcaster, facilitator, and TEDx speaker from Chandigarh. She uses poetry as a medium of storytelling, activism, and philanthropy to promote positive social change. Amy runs Cross Connection Poetry, an initiative to bring poetry out into the public spaces and to work with marginalized communities and at-risk children through arts. She founded Daak: to Lahore with love, a letter-writing initiative to promote cross-border peace and harmony. Currently, she hosts Agla Warqa – The Partition podcast on Spotify and apple podcasts where she attempts to turn a new leaf in this book of separation and promote peace and friendship between India and Pakistan. Her initiatives have been featured by The Indian Express, The Tribune, Quint, Hindustan Times, and other news and media platforms.