Shwetant Kumar is a composer, performer, musicologist, and synthesiser programmer. He’s other things too, but these are how he hopes to earn a living.​​

 

Shwetant’s work encompasses literature, theatre, cinema, intellectual property, music technology, socioeconomics, humour, and offensiveness. He is the author of Bollywood (forthcoming 2028) in Bloomsbury’s Genre: A 33 1/3 Series, and has been commissioned articles by leading Indian online platforms such as Scroll and Serenade. As the archivist and authorised biographer of composer Vanraj Bhatia, he is the co-founding Managing Trustee of the Vanraj Bhatia Foundation. He is currently researching how commercial electronic instruments were designed to replace musicians, and the resulting impact in both India and the UK during the late 20th century.

 

Shwetant earned a BM (magna cum laude) in Film Scoring and Electronic Production and Design from Berklee College of Music (2020), and a BA in English Literature from the University of Mumbai (2017). He is also a student of composer Alla Elana Cohen and Gwalior gharana vocalist Neela Bhagwat.

 

Shwetant enjoys the company of his friends, and spends the little spare time he has working towards a PhD in Ethnomusicology at Yale University.