Jaanu Naagar was born in 1985, in Badagaon, Machihari, Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh. He completed his school education in Fatehpur and his BA first year from Delhi University. He taught for one year in Janhitkari Saraswati Vidya Mandir in Fatehpur. He did a one year computer course from Daryaganj, Delhi. He has always nurtured an interest in writing in Hindi. He joined the Cybermohalla Lab in Nangla Maanchi, Delhi in 2005, where he lived, and till August 2006, when Nangla was demolished, he created an archive of audio recordings about Nangla. Presently he continues to be with Cybermohalla.

Yashoda Singh was born in 1983, in Delhi. Yashoda left school after ninth class, and began to write after emerging from a difficult marriage. She has been with the Cybermohalla Lab at LNJP, Delhi, since 2001 and is presently the editor of the quarterly Cybermohalla broadsheet, “Bade Bade Shehron Mein Kuchh Numm Baaten” ("Soft Sounds and Conversations in Large, Loud Cities")

Rakesh Khairalia was born in 1978, in Chakpheri Village, Uttar Pradesh. Rakesh did several jobs after finishing school. After an attempt to set up his own courier company failed, he worked in a printing press (screen printing), as a marketing agent and superviser for different companies, as a cashier and as an agent in a job agency. He joined the Cybermohalla Lab at Dakshinpuri, in 2004. He is currently researching how different kinds of conversational contexts in the locality can be learnt from and deepened.


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