Who is Shibani Mitra?
Shibani Mitra — better known online as @shibustuff — is a multimedia artist based in Pondicherry, India. She describes her practice as visual note-taking: carrying a camera the way other people carry a notebook, and keeping what she catches. Working hands, peeling walls, the light at 4pm.
Her Instagram audience of more than 370,000 follows that daily practice, and her writing continues it in longer form. She publishes Shibustuff, a Substack on culture and creativity, and The Misadventures of Banshee — the letters this membership space takes its name from.
Banshee Universe is her members-only home: the workshops, digital products and cohorts that used to live in scattered WhatsApp groups, gathered into one space.
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- Who is Shibani Mitra?
- Shibani Mitra is a multimedia artist based in Pondicherry, India. She is best known online as @shibustuff, where more than 370,000 people follow her visual note-taking — photography and observations of everyday Indian visual culture. She also writes two Substacks, Shibustuff and The Misadventures of Banshee.
- Who is @shibustuff?
- @shibustuff is Shibani Mitra's handle across Instagram, Threads, Pinterest and Substack. It is the same person everywhere. Banshee Universe is her membership space, where her workshops and digital products live.
- What is The Misadventures of Banshee?
- The Misadventures of Banshee is Shibani Mitra's Substack, and the letters that give Banshee Universe its name. She also publishes Shibustuff, a Substack on culture and creativity. She has over 2,300 subscribers across the two, and both archives are for subscribers only.
- What is visual note-taking?
- Visual note-taking is how Shibani Mitra describes her practice: carrying a camera the way other people carry a notebook, and keeping what she catches rather than composing it. Working hands, peeling walls, the light at 4pm. She teaches the method in her workshops.
- What is Banshee Universe?
- Banshee Universe is Shibani Mitra's members-only space. It brings her workshops, cohorts and digital products into one place, replacing the per-workshop WhatsApp groups and manual payments they used to run on.
- Where can I follow Shibani Mitra?
- She is @shibustuff on Instagram, Threads and Pinterest, and publishes on Substack at Shibustuff and The Misadventures of Banshee. Her journalism profile is on Muck Rack. Every link is listed on this page.
Follower and subscriber counts are a snapshot from 2026-08-08, not live figures.
