Aranya Johar

Aranya Johar is an Indian poet. She uses social media to address issues like gender equality, mental health and body positivity. She uses slam poetry to confront beauty standards. Aranya’s first released piece, “A Brown Girls’s Guide to Gender” became a viral sensation and hit 1 million views within two days of its upload. She integrated spoken word in Bollywood for the first time through her collaboration with Akshay Kumar for the movie ‘Padman’. Aranya was a speaker at TEDxICTMumbai in April 2017. She has been invited and praised by various poets and foundations.

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