rahee punyasholka

Rahee Punyashloka is a Dalit writer, visual artist, and experimental filmmaker from Bhubaneswar, India. Some of his video works have been exhibited in numerous venues including the International Film Festival, Rotterdam (IFFR) and Tribeca Film Festival (New York). Recently he has expanded his practice toward creating visual art that is rooted in Dalit histories and Ambedkarite iconography, which he does under the moniker ‘artedkar’.

He is also currently writing his first novel, A Manual for Shapeshifting, for which he is being mentored by Madhuri Vijay under the South Asia Speaks program.