Shwetant Kumar (born 1996) 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 2026) 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 co-founding Managing Trustee of the Vanraj Bhatia Foundation.​​

 

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.