Samvartha Sahil is a writer, translator, and teacher of screenwriting. An alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Films and Television Institute of India, he has been a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship for translation, Karnataka Sahitya Akademi travel fellowship, and also Aman Biradari’s Prabhash Joshi media fellowship. He has five books to his credit which include the translation of the poetry collections of Nagraj Manjule, Jacinta Kerketta, and Yogesh Maitreya.