Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee are long-time Bay Area activists and community-based historians. They’ve worked in over a dozen South Asian American social justice, feminist, LGBTQ+, climate, and arts groups and campaigns.

The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour is based on years of archival research and oral history, and builds on the work of many other activists and historians. The tour brings these stories to a wider community, to inform and ground, but also to inspire new activism, in the tradition of radical historians like Zinn and Takaki.

In addition to the tour, Ghosh and Chatterjee organized for the naming of Kala Bagai Way in downtown Berkeley, curated two spinoff art shows, run a blog featuring stories from their research, do extensive digital archiving, and created a visual guide to South Asian and African American solidarity history.

They work with a wide variety of Bay Area organizations, including Bay Area Solidarity Summer, the BART board of directors, Walk Bike Berkeley, and the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action. (affiliations for identification only)