Geeta Doctor is a Chennai-based writer and critic. She contributes to a number of magazines and journals on art, architecture and literature. Her special interest has been in tracking the vibrant changing forms of public art whether on the backs of interstate lorries and buses or inside autorickshaws and push carts. Street art in the South – poster art and wall art – and newly emerging trends at religious festivals and weddings have also been a source of abiding interest to her. In 2003, she curated River of Life, a show of Chennai’s hand-painted cinema hoardings, in Berlin. She has been a regular contributor to ART India for more than 10 years.

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a writer and critic based in Beirut. She is a contributing editor for the magazine Bidoun, writes a column for Frieze, contributes regularly to Artforum and covers contemporary art and culture for the Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star. She has contributed essays to numerous journals, anthologies, monographs and exhibition catalogues, including The Future of Tradition – The Tradition of Future (2010); Untitled Tracks: On Alternative Music in Beirut (2009); Foreword, the catalogue accompanying Lebanon’s first and only national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007); and Out of Beirut (2006).

Akshaya Tankha was a researcher at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi from 2008 to 2011. He has worked as a research consultant for other institutions as well. In the summer of 2010 and 2011, he was a visiting lecturer for the Art, Criticism & Theory course at Jnanapravaha, Mumbai. He has previously written for Marg, the IIC Quarterly and Gallery Nature Morte. Tankha completed a Masters from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2006 and in Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 2008. He is currently a Doctoral student at the Department of Art, University of Toronto.

Marta Jakimowicz did her M.A. in Indology from Warsaw University while studying art history on her own. She initially wrote books in Polish on classical Indian art, mythology and culture (Metamorphoses of Indian Gods, among other titles). For over twenty years she has written art criticism from Bangalore, artists’ monographs, catalogue essays and articles in art magazines. Since 2001 she has curated twelve exhibitions, like Subtlety – Minimally about minimalist elements in art, Enchanting the Icon on male and female perceptions of the ethnic woman, The Human Figure in sculpture, Around Architecture on the relationship of art and architecture, Mechanisms of Motion dealing with art works that move, and Dolls featuring representations of women. She has been a regular contributor to ART India for more than 10 years.