Parvinder Marwaha is a cultural worker and writer whose practice supports Panjabi culture across India, Pakistan and the diaspora. Working through food, language, arts and Sikh heritage, she hopes to bring greater visibility and impact to Panjabi creativity. She recently helped launch a Panjabi (Shahmukhi) language project in Pakistan, where Panjabi is not currently taught in schools. Her writing often uses food as both metaphor and method; she is currently developing a cookbook exploring a Panjabi life through food, and a children’s book series inspired by ingredients.

In 2019, she founded chai breaker, using tea as a catalyst for dialogue on topics from gender equality to casteism, delivering workshops for organisations including Kew Gardens and South Asian Heritage Month, and contributing to National Food Service London’s community cookbook with a recipe for 100 cups of chai and a sweet poem.

Over the past decade, she has worked across the UK and South Asia on international programmes, including documenting the life’s work of Pakistan’s first female architect Yasmeen Lari, programming for the William Morris Gallery’s Morris and Art from the Islamic World exhibition, and curating Bradford’s first Arts and Culture Climate Symposium. She is a Trustee of Cove Park and serves on EcoSikh UK’s multifaith climate committee, leading the Greening the Gurdwara initiative.