Rayan Chakrabarti is an academic, poet and translator working at the intersections of memory studies, critical heritage and anthropology. He is pursuing a Master's in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and holds an undergraduate degree in Literature from St Stephen's College, Delhi. He aims to build an archive and museum of the Covid Pandemic and its impacts in South Asia, centred around questions of truth, reconciliation and reparations.