Ranjit Hoskote is an Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. He has been honoured, by the Sahitya Akademi, with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation, and has received the S H Raza Literature Award and the 7th JLF-Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry. He curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale, under the title ‘Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode’ (2011).