Vipul Rikhi is a poet, fiction writer, translator and singer based in Bangalore. He has published a novel (2012 Nights) and collections of poetry and short stories. He was a fellow for literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany in 2010-11. His current work is with Kabir Project where he writes and translates extensively in the field of Bhakti, Sufi and Baul poetry, working on forthcoming books as well as a vast online archive called 'Ajab Shahar'. In the course of this work he has developed a deep love for interpreting and singing mystic poetry from the oral folk traditions of Kabir and other poets.