Shohini Ghosh is Professor and Officiating Director of the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. She is the author of Fire: A Queer Classic (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010) and the director of Tales of the Night Fairies (2002) a documentary on the sex-workers rights movement. She writes on cinema, contemporary media, gender and sexuality.

Rimli Bhattacharya trained in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur and Brown Universities, and currently teaches in the Department of English, University of Delhi. She works in the fields of gender and performance, children’s literature and primary education with an emphasis on visual culture. Teaching and research interests include film and the expressive arts across a range of genres and languages. Recent publications include The Dancing Poet: Rabindranath Tagore and Choreographies of Participation (2019), Public Women in British India (2018) and a translation of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel Restless Waters of the Ichhamati (2018). “Stitching Sails: Rising Oceans” is an ongoing multimedia project on the Indian Ocean.

Ranu Roychoudhuri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. She is a historian of modern and contemporary art in South Asia with a focus on photography, print history, intellectual history of art, art historiography, and postcolonial studies. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and is presently working on her first monograph. Her research has been supported by the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and several centers at The University of Chicago from where she received her doctoral degree.

Shan Bhattacharya is a self-taught artist working with photographs and video, based in Kolkata, India. He was the first recipient of the Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography, instituted by the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation, in 2016. His text-and-image narrative work Portal: The Curious Account of Achintya Bose was co-published by SSAF–Tulika Books in 2020. He often collaborates with Kolkata-based independent jazz bands to produce music videos and photographs.

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India and South Asia: Tulika Books at tulikabooks.in: https://tulikabooks.in/catalog/product/view/id/21830

Rest of the world: Columbia University Press at cup.columbia.edu: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/portal/9788194534808