Niyati Bhat
Writer and Translator
As a writer and translator from a Kashmiri Pandit family exiled in 1990, I explore migration and separation. My project combines the personal histories of four generations of Kashmiri Pandit women with Kashmiri oral history. The book aims to preserve and translate their erased songs and stories, examining how language affects trauma and memory, and contributing to the scholarship on Kashmir and its women.
Niyati Bhat, a writer, poet, and translator from New Delhi. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, focusing on refugee narratives in global south cinema. Her work appears in “The Swinging Seventies” (Om Books, 2024). She has led workshops, lectured at the National Library of Wales, and performed at the Aberystwyth Poetry Festival. Niyati has presented research at Harvard, LMU Germany, and other conferences. She was a "Writing and Translation" fellow at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David for 2024 and received the 2024 "Literary and Translation Fellowship" from CWIT and LAF.
