Karno Dasgupta (he/they) is an interdisciplinary writer and researcher from Kathmandu. Born in Kolkata, they grew up first in Nepal, and later, Abu Dhabi. Karno’s work concerns what a philosopher once called “the difficulty of reality.” Schooled in performance studies, he is interested in the aesthetics of ordinary life in the postcolony, with its textures of viciousness and dignity, its tensions in time (of history, of memory), its claims in language and of identity. Karno writes about art because it allows him to approach ethical questions he desires to ponder but cannot, by other means, broach, and because art is sometimes very beautiful.