Co-convener and Co-coordinator Rishi Bashistha is an author, critic, dramatist and editor. He has completed M A in Dramatics, at Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga Bihar.
He has written more than 12 books and is known as a foremost name in the area of Children’s literature.
He is a trained theatre artist and has acted in more than 100 plays and directed close to 50 plays. He has received many awards and honors for theatre and literature including the Senior Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, GoI and the prestigious Sahitya Akademi in 2019 in the Children’s literature category.
Presently, he lives in his ancestral village (Pariharpur, Madhubani) and runs an organisation called Rangrez Mithila.