Contributors

Editorial Team

Discover Purvanchal

Essays produced collaboratively by the Discover Purvanchal editorial team — reporting, fact-checking, and photographs pulled together from across the masthead.

Anjali Rai

Contributing writer

Based in Varanasi, Anjali writes on ritual, riverine life, and the changing public spaces of the old city. Her work has appeared in cultural journals across India.

Rahul Verma

Photographer & writer

Documentary photographer working across eastern Uttar Pradesh, with a long-term project on handloom communities in Madanpura, Mubarakpur, and Mau.

Kavita Singh

Food writer

Kavita writes about home kitchens, seasonal eating, and the recipes passed between women of Purvanchal. She is at work on a book of Bhojpuri kitchen histories.