Mr. Yatin Batra is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi. His doctoral research is interdisciplinary in nature and focuses on the identity aspects of the Siraiki (Bahawalpuri/Multani) and Sindhi communities through the written and oral narratives of Partition (1947) migrants and eyewitnesses. His fieldwork includes recording Siraiki folk traditions and the narratives of Siraiki partition survivors dispersed across India.
Mr. Batra graduated with an honors degree in English literature from Shyam Lal College, University of Delhi. He has a master’s (with a gold medal) and an M.Phil. in Comparative Indian Literature from the University of Delhi. His areas of interest include comparative literature, partition studies, gender studies, folklore, and culture studies. He has presented papers at numerous national and international seminars on diverse topics.
Mr. Batra is a recipient of the Tata Trust – Partition Archive Research Grant (2021) at the 1947 Partition Archive based in Berkeley, CA, where he is also a certified Citizen Historian. He received the Likho Citizen Journalism Fellowship (2020) from the Humsafar Trust (NGO for LGBTQ rights). He has worked with NGOs such as Katha and Kitaab Club to impart education to underprivileged students.
As a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, Mr. Batra aims at building cross-cultural connections between Indianness and Americanness through his creative strategies of teaching language. As a cultural ambassador, he is imbibing culture in a pluralistic way through the philosophy of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam.