Arjun Khade is a 22-year-old medical student at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. He serves as the Managing Editor of Manipal The Talk Network, Manipal’s largest and oldest student-run media organization. Hailing from the Vanjari community, a denotified nomadic tribe systematically marginalized under colonial rule, he is also a KVPY fellow and NTSE scholar, both awarded by the Government of India. He is most recently a Rewrite 2024 fellow (organized by Studio Ainak), headed by National Award-winning filmmakers Suruchi Sharma and Ashok Meena. His literary inspirations include Joyce, Nabokov, Pushkin, Woolf and Proust.