We meet Anish Gawande at Method Bandra a day after the announcement by the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) of his appointment as its national spokesperson. “An ideal space,” the curator, writer and Rhodes scholar says of the choice of the gallery-cum-cafe for our meeting. 

“To me, politics has always been intertwined with art and literature.” Gawande, 27, has degrees in comparative literature, intellectual history and public policy and is the director of the Dara Shikoh Fellowship, an interdisciplinary arts residency based in Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh.