Usha Rao Banerjee is a freelance writer based in Bangalore. She has studied Anthropology at the University of Massa-chusetts, Amherst. Her interests range from Culture Studies to Alternative Critical Pedagogies.

 

Gopika Nath is an alumna of The Central School of Art and Design, London, U.K. She has been a Fulbright scholar and works currently as textile designer/fibre-artist/writer/teacher. She has worked with the corporate sector, the Handloom industry, retail organizations, fashion designers, and educational institutes. She lives and works in New Delhi and writes on issues related to Craft, Art, Design, and Textiles.

Amrit Gangar has authored/co-authored several books on cinema in English and Gujarati. He has curated and organized programmes for film festivals in India and abroad, and for Screen Unit, the film club he headed for over two decades. He has contributed to national and international dailies, journals, and books on cinematography and art. Recently, he presented the Cinema of Prayoga programme at the Tate Modern, London. As the Founder Director of Datakino, he has set up the database for the Films Division's production of documentary, short, and animation films from 1949 to 1993.

Gangar writes regularly for the bilingual contemporary art quarterly, ART iT, published from Tokyo.

Samantak Das taught English at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, for thirteen years, and now teaches Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is interested in books, art, science, food, and music, and when not goofing off, inflicts his views on readers of The Statesman through his column, Jabberwocky. His curriculum vitae lists martial arts, yoga, and sleeping among his interests. He counts Rabindranath Tagore, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and P.G. Wodehouse among his personal gods. This is his first piece for a major art journal.