On June 30, Ananke and World Literature Right this moment will co-host a particular Zoom dialog occasion to showcase WLT’s newest metropolis difficulty, “Delhi within the Anthropocene,” guest-edited by Amit R. Baishya. The problem gathers a wealthy combination of fiction, poetry, graphic narrative, images, and movie with a deal with multispecies cohabitation within the megacity. Contributors Ravi Agarwal, Nitoo Das, Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Sumana Roy, and Vandana Singh will be part of Sabin Muzaffar, Ananke’s founder and government editor; Amit Baishya; and Daniel Simon, WLT’s editor in chief, as presenters.

The webinar—which begins at 10:00am edt within the US and at 7:30pm in Delhi—is free and open to most people, however advance registration is required on the following hyperlink.

That includes a number of the most interesting up to date writers and artists from India, “Delhi within the Anthropocene” considers environments, milieus, multispecies life, and the ambiance in India’s capital metropolis. Delhi is commonly within the information for issues pertaining to local weather change, air high quality, warmth, and air pollution. Whereas the works featured on this assortment deal with such points and what they imply for all times and residing, in addition they depict modes of cohabitation, survival, and interspecies connection within the neoliberal metropolis.

As a particular bonus, copies of the Delhi difficulty in addition to print or digital subscriptions might be bought for a 20 % low cost by visiting the WLT web site and getting into the coupon code SUMMER20 at checkout (legitimate via August 15, 2025).

Based in 2014, Ananke is a digital media and growth platform participating numerous in addition to marginalized voices throughout the World South. The platform has been nominated twice by the World Summit on Info Society Prizes (2019, 2020) for its digitally inclusive work on gender.

World Literature Right this moment, the College of Oklahoma’s award-winning journal of worldwide literature and tradition, is presently celebrating 99 years of steady publication. As of 2024, WLT tallies 2.2 million annual readers, with a worldwide subscriber base, and might be present in bookstores all through the US and Canada in addition to at worldlit.org.

Questions? Contact Ananke at [email protected] or WLT at [email protected]. 

In regards to the Hosts

Amit R. Baishya is affiliate professor of English on the College of Oklahoma. He teaches programs on postcolonial principle and the environmental humanities. He’s the creator of, amongst others, Attunement to Others: Multispecies Cohabitation within the Anthropocene (Cambridge College Press, forthcoming). Baishya additionally interprets from Assamese to English.

Sabin Muzaffar is the founder and government editor of Anankemag.com, a brand new media and growth platform creating inclusive conversations within the digital realm. In 2021 she based one other initiative, Ananke’s Girls in Literature Basis (now Ananke Pageant of Literature), specializing in the World South with a imaginative and prescient to create narratives about democratizing the media and publishing panorama in addition to highlighting numerous set of voices. Possessing 25+ years of expertise in print and digital media, she has mentored and educated 100+ women globally with deal with digital media, on-line advocacy, and communication. Underneath her steerage, Ananke has been nominated twice by the World Summit on Info Society Prizes (2019, 2020) and is presently a Dedication Maker for the Actions Coalition, Technology Equality.

The creator of three books of poems, Daniel Simon is an award-winning editor, poet, essayist, translator, and WLT’s assistant director and editor in chief. His most up-to-date edited assortment, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt Worldwide Prize for Literature (2020), was a Publishers Weekly starred decide. Compass on the Navigable Sea, his anthology commemorating World Literature Right this moment’s centennial, is forthcoming from Stressed Books in spring 2026.