Kesang Thakur is an independent writer from Lahul, India. She has been part of scholar-activist projects on urbanization, hydropower and waste infrastructure in the northern mountain state of Himachal Pradesh. In 2014, she co-founded Filming Lahul, a visual ethnography project in Lahul valley, and is currently editing her first feature film. She’s also a research assistant for an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) project on religious change and continuity in the trans-Himalayan Spiti valley.

Krishna Tashi Palmo is an artist from Lahul, India. Trained and certified in traditional Buddhist Thangka art from the Tibetan Children’s Village Art School in Kullu, she is equally drawn to contemporary forms and mediums of expression. Her experimental work builds radically on the notions of the feminine, spirituality and the self. She has exhibited her paintings in local, national and international artistic platforms, most recently at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Asia Society Center, Hong Kong.