Hailing from the city of Silchar, Assam, India, Daipayan Nair is a haikuist. He writes micropoetry, mostly haiku and tanka poems. His works have been featured in various international platforms and weekly columns like Haiku Dialogue of The Haiku Foundation, Haiku in Action of Nick Virgilio Haiku Association and FreshOutMag. He has also been published in prestigious haiku journals like Cold Moon Journal, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Triya Mag journal, Failed haiku – a journal of English Senryu, frogpond, the Akitsu Quarterly, and the prestigious monthly of haikuKATHA from Triveni Haikai India. His recent collection of haiku & senryu titled "tilt of the winnowing fan" was published in 2022 by Hawakal Publishers.