Jane Borges is an independent journalist, novelist and oral historian and a recipient of the RedInk Journalism Award 2022. She wrote the novel ‘Bombay Balchao’ and co-authored ‘Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands’, a chapter of which was adapted into Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’. Borges leads Soboicar, an oral history archive documenting the lives of Catholics who migrated from the Konkan to South Mumbai, in partnership with The Citizens’ Archive of India. In 2025, she was a Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Her first novel was ‘Bombay Balchao’ and the second, ‘Mog Asundi’ (Let There Be Love) is forthcoming.