Sanchit Toor

Sanchit Toor recently graduated with a master’s degree with a concentration in South Asian literature from Ashoka University and is currently a Project Coordinator at the Ashoka Centre for Translation. He is an alumnus of the Young India Fellowship programme and is broadly interested in the questions of language, orality, religion, translation, and performance. Sanchit has been working on various literary and ethnographic projects. As a Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellow 2020, he documented the oral-performative tradition of Haryanvi farmer women and has presented his work on both early modern and modern texts-contexts on various platforms, with all his conversations mediated by translation through and through.