Pratyusha Pan

In her work as in her life, Pratyusha moves through the landscapes, history, culture, nostalgia and the many changing faces of her city. With its layered histories and vanishing worlds, Kolkata is a recurring presence in her writing and a constant source of inspiration. She is interested in the ways memory survives in places, people and everyday objects, and sees journalism as a form of documenting the present while holding on to what might otherwise be lost. Her work often looks for the human stories connecting the past to the present, whether through disappearing communities, public art, literature or ordinary city life. A devoted reader and film enthusiast, she is drawn to the stories about how we live and remember.