Geeta Kapur is a critic and curator. Her essays are extensively anthologized; her books include Contemporary Indian Artists (1978), When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India (2000), Speech Acts (2025), Critic’s Compass: Navigating Practice (forthcoming 2025). She was a founder-editor of Journal of Arts & Ideas, advisory board member of Third Text and Marg. Her curatorial projects include: ‘Dispossession’, Johannesburg Biennale (1995); ‘Bombay/Mumbai’ (co-curator, Ashish Rajadhyaksha), Century City, Tate Modern, London (2001); ‘subTerrain’, House of World Cultures, Berlin (2003); ‘Aesthetic Bind’, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (five exhibitions, 2013–14). She is a Trustee of the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation (SSAF), Delhi, and general editor of the Art Documents series published by SSAF–Tulika Books.

Arindam Dutta is Associate Professor of Architectural History at the School of Architecture and Planning, and Director of the History, Theory, Criticism Program in Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, Grey Room, Journal of Arts & Ideas and Perspecta. He is the author of The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility (2007), a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, post-coloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. He is the editor of A Second Modernism: Architecture, MIT and the ‘Techno-Social’ Moment, on the post-war conjuncture of architectural thought and linguistic/systems theories (2013). Dutta is currently at work on a manuscript entitled The Liberal Arts after Liberalization: Sahmat 1989–2004, which involves a detailed examination of the political challenges faced by artists in India with the corresponding rise of Hindu religious fundamentalism and neoliberalism.

Sibaji Bandyopadhyay is former Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), and former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Among his many books are: Three Essays on the Mahabharata: Exercises in Literary Hermeneutics (2016); Gopal–Rakhal Dvandasamas: Uponibeshbad o Bangla Sishu-Sahitya (2015); Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Reader (2012); and The Colonial Chronotope (1994). The first volume of his Complete Works (including English writing) was released in 2017. Sibaji Bandyopadhyay has received the Vidyasagar Memorial Award 2010 for lifetime achievement in the sphere of Bengali prose; the Sisir Kumar Das Memorial Award 2010 for his contributions to Bengali literature; and the Buddhadeva Bose Memorial Award 2016 for his contributions in the arena of Bengali and English essays.

Saloni Mathur received her Phd in Cultural Anthropology in 1998, and is currently Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display (2007), editor of The Migrant's Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora (2011), co-editor (with Kavita Singh) of No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: Modalities of the Museum in South Asia(2015), and co-editor (with Moiwon Kwon) of Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem, a project by Vivan Sundaram (2015).

Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, and Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.