Rumi Harish

Rumi Harish is a queer, trans man. He has been working in the field of social justice and human rights of various marginalised communities like contract-based sanitation workers unions, transgenders, queers, and sex workers for the last 22 years. He started learning Hindustani classical music at the age of 8 and learned under 6 Gurus all over India like Late Pandit Ramarao Naik, Pandit Yeshwant Bua Joshi, Pandit Dattatreya Garud, Pandit Indhudhar Nirody, Panditha Aditi Upadhya, and Pandith Sudhindra Bahowmick. He is now going through his voice transition and is trying out a new way of singing and using of voice. He has written 3 plays called Sanchari, Liberty Begum, and A Journey A to E, and is a regular columnist in EEdina .com. He had focussed on crisis intervention and worked with Sunil Mohan for 18 years. Along with Sunil Mohan, he has written articles and reports with Sunil Mohan. Presently he is focusing to develop the regional cultural aspects of queer and trans communities