President's Office

Jury

Annapurna Garimella (Historian, Designer, )

Annapurna Garimella is an art historian and a designer. Her research focuses on late medieval Indic architecture and the history and practices of vernacular visual and built cultures in India after Independence. Garimella is the Managing Trustee of Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, which has a research library and conducts independent research and teaching. She also heads Jackfruit Research and Design, an organization with a specialized portfolio of design, research and curation. Jackfruit’s recent curatorial projects include Mutable: Ceramic and Clay Art in India Since 1947 (Piramal Museum of Art, 2017) and The Past has a Home in the Future (Dhoomimal Gallery, Connaught Place, 2024).

Her newest books are the co-edited Marg volume titled The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History (2019) and The Long Arc of South Asian Art: A Reader in Honor of Vidya Dehejia (Women Unlimited, 2022). Designing India 1947 to Now, A Face on a Face: South Asian Masks in the Vaidya Collection and Digesting the Past: The Discourse of Sacralized Architectural Renovation in Southern India (14th-17th Centuries) are book manuscripts under preparation.

Romi Khosla (Architect, Writer, Delhi)

Romi Khosla is known internationally as an architect and consultant on Urban revitalisation. Having graduated from Cambridge University (Economics) and The Architectural Association in London, he established his Design Studios in India some 50 years ago and has designed and built over a hundred buildings, some of which have been awarded with national and international honours. He has served as a jury member of The Aga Khan Awards in Geneva and the city of Izmir. Recently, the Institute of Architects of Antalya awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award. For decades as an earth walker, he has travelled on foot to research ancient Buddhist sites in the deeper Himalayas which he published in a book.

Tridip Suhrud (Provost, CEPT University)

Tridip Suhrud is a scholar, writer, and translator who works on the intellectual and cultural history of modern Gujarat and the Gandhian intellectual tradition. He is the author of 35 books in three languages. His books include the critical edition of Hind Swaraj, English translation and the four-volume epic Gujarati novel, Sarasvatichandra. His most recent work is a critical edition of Gandhi’s autobiography My Experiments with Truth in two languages; Gujarati and English. He works as Professor and Provost, CEPT University.