Janice Pariat is the art section writer for Time Out Delhi. She finished her BA in English Literature from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and then spent a good part of her MA in Communications at Westminster, London, walking the banks of the Embankment, attending plays as a groundling at The Globe and trawling the vast number of museums and galleries that the city had to offer. After a few years spent in the publishing industry there, working as an intern with Random House, Pickering & Chatto and Harper Collins, Pariat returned to freelance for Biblio, HT City (Mumbai) and Mint Lounge. She enjoys travelling to the mountains, the company of dogs, Nick Drake as well as spending endless hours browsing at bookshops and art galleries.

Kaushik Bhaumik is Senior Vice-President at Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art. He is a historian by training and the co-editor of Visual Sense: A Cultural Reader brought out by Berg Publishers
in 2008. His monograph on early Bombay cinema is due next year from Clarendon Press, Oxford. He has published extensively on Bombay and World Cinema and has recently started writing on modern Indian art.

Emilia Terracciano graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and History of Art from University College London. In 2007, she acquired a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. In 2008, she was awarded the V&A and Courtauld collaborative doctoral scholarship. Currently, she is cataloguing the V&A Modern and Contemporary Indian art collection. She freelances for various magazines and is interested in photography, architecture, design and the graphic arts.

Zasha Colah is the curator of the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai. Prior to this, she worked at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, and at Peer Arts Trust, a gallery for public art in London. She wrote about the meaning of the decorative within the Pan-Asian movement while at Oxford University and about how art from the Naga Hills of Nagaland, Manipur and Myanmar addresses injustice while at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2008, she cofounded ‘b l a c k r i c e’ for curatorial projects that encourage collaborative art practice and address the memories of burning fields in north-eastern India.