Mita Kapur is the founder and CEO of Siyahi, India’s leading literary consultancy. Her first book, The F-Word, is a food book, memoir, and travelogue. She has edited Chillies and Porridge: Writing Food, an anthology of essays on food. As a freelance journalist, she writes regularly for different newspapers and magazines on social and development issues along with travel, food, and lifestyle. She has received many awards like the Femina Women Super Achiever Award (2018) at the World HRD Congress, the Maharani Gayatri Devi Award for Woman of Excellence (2014), and the Karamveer Puruskar (2009) for her work as a journalist in creating social awareness and for being the best literary consultant in the country. She is the curator of Masala Chowk, a food court that specializes in street food in Jaipur and a member of the executive council for Jawahar Kala Kendra. She is also the producer for Mountain Echoes Literary Festival, Woman Up! Summit and Soul Connect Experiences.
