Kalash Nanda Kumar is a Malaysian journalist and critic whose work explores culture, climate change, and current affairs. He has participated in numerous regional and international film festivals as a juror, programmer, and facilitator. His writing has appeared in various national and regional publications.
Beyond journalism, Kalash is active in advocacy and non-profit work. He was a founding member and former communications director of Imagined Malaysia, and is a member of FIPRESCI, NETPAC, PEN Malaysia, and the National Union of Journalists Malaysia.
Kalash Nanda Kumar participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Kalash Nanda Kumar’s submission:
You should revive all these subtler expressions of humanity. You should remember that human life is like a collection of so many flowers, and that collection of so many flowers is the charm of human life. Let all those flowers develop, and let the final movement of all those expressions of charm and fascination be goaded unto Parama Puruśa. Whatever I do, whatever we do, whatever we will be doing, is just to please the supreme charmer, is just to please the supreme source, is just to please the Supreme Progenitor—there cannot be any other aim of human life.
