Saba Bhat

Saba Bhat is a writer, producer and visual artist from Srinagar, Kashmir, who lives in Goa. A graduate of the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, she has spent her career developing stories and characters for the Indian entertainment industry and is associated with Sugar Coated Entertainment Private Limited. She is also a painter, and she writes with a painter’s eye for colour, light, silence and the small details most people walk past.

Kashmir is at the heart of everything she makes: not only the Kashmir of conflict and headlines, but the Kashmir of childhood, of women’s resilience, of family tenderness and the quiet endurance of ordinary people. Drawn to the emotional worlds of women and children, and to the place where reality opens into magic, she tells stories rooted in one valley that belong to everyone.

Zoon on Moon brings together her love for Kashmir, her fascination with childhood and her belief in the transforming power of imagination.

For Saba, storytelling is an act of remembrance: a way of keeping alive the lives that might otherwise go unheard.