Akhshay Gandhi is a theatre artist & practitioner, collaborating with creators in various disciplines to create & perform theatre. An alumni of Saratoga International Theatre Institute, New York and BITS-Pilani, he is recipient of prestigious Tata Scholar Grant and BITSAA 30u30 award. His performance training includes, Suzuki Method, Practice of Viewpoints, Adishakti training, Devised and Movement Arts. His recent work includes, Mahesh Dattani’s Clearing the Rubble in India, Chales Mee’s Adam & Evie in New York and No Place in New York. Currently, devising a new production tentatively titled, #whatsitsrole. He is founder & Artistic Director of Bangalore based multi-disciplinary theatre company, Still Space Theatre.

Rohit Bhasi is an illustrator based presently in Bangalore. In addition to his day job where he earns his daal roti creating marketing collateral design, he sketches illustrations for storybooks, paints wall murals and creates commissioned canvases, and doodle freehand illustrations for myself and for like-thinking clients; on themes derived from ancient indian myths, folktales, and people of this land. Characters of legend and lore, places of contained energy and human effort, human migration across ages and epics, mythical creatures, relationships between nature and humans and divinities, these are some subjects that fascinates and inspires him, towards creating work.

Harkat is an international boutique arts studio with a passion for film, new media, community art spaces and contemporary art. Based in Mumbai & Berlin, Harkat takes many forms and identities across disciplines & related creative industries. As an alternative performance & arts space, we have hosted more than 150 shows in the past year in the mediums of theatre, film, music, community projects & contemporary art. We support the new, unheard, upcoming, exciting, cutting edge, the political, the forgotten, nostalgic, melancholic, soul stirring, the beautiful & more. And that's what Harkat is. Harkat.