KHWAAB TANHA COLLECTIVE

Shiraz Husain, is a multidisciplinary visual artist. He is a practitioner of free-hand drawing, graphic design. Shiraz is a founder artist, and the sole force behind The Khwaab Tanha Collective. The collective works through the format of poster art to popularise literature and poetry from Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and other South Asian languages. He is also a children's book illustrator, and writer; and has taught Applied Arts for many years at Jamia Millia Islamic University's Fine Art Department. Currently, among other things, he is working on the project hawaas e khamsa at the Simurgh Centre, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi.