Language advisors
Support selection, language context and community relationships.
Profiles forthcoming06 / People
An archive is made by accountable people.
SHABD India identifies intellectual, linguistic, editorial and technical labour where it happens—across the project, each story and every version.
Founder & project director
S Anas Ahmad
Researcher in English and Digital Humanities
S Anas Ahmad works at the intersection of postcolonial studies, Digital Humanities, game studies and electronic literature, with particular attention to how claims of technological universality look from Global South subject positions.
He completed a PhD in English at Aligarh Muslim University in 2025, held the Maulana Azad National Fellowship as a Senior Research Fellow, founded SHABD India, and serves on the core team of E-Lit India.
Based inAligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Research areasPostcolonial DH · multilingual infrastructure · electronic literature
Credit as infrastructure
Contributor names, roles, consent, version histories and rights belong in the archive record—not only in acknowledgements.
Translators
Create named, versioned translations with documented review.
Profiles forthcomingReviewers
Assess linguistic, literary and contextual accuracy.
Profiles forthcomingNarrators
Produce accessible audio with clear credit and consent.
Profiles forthcomingMetadata contributors
Research editions, authors, places, periods and rights.
Profiles forthcomingTechnical stewards
Build sustainable multilingual access and preservation systems.
Profiles forthcoming