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Annapurna Garimella

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.

Mustansir Dalvi 

Mustansir Dalvi is Adjunct Faculty at Sir JJ School of Art, Architecture and Design (de novo deemed to be university) and oversees the postgraduate program on Metropolitan Architecture. He was Professor at Sir JJ College of Architecture until 2024, retiring as the longest serving Professor of Architecture in the University of Mumbai. During this time, he was member, Academic Council and chairperson, Board of Studies at the University of Mumbai. He received his PhD Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay in 2017. Dalvi is the editor of 20th Century Compulsions (Marg, 2016), a collection of writings about early Indian modernist architecture. His newest book is Citizen Charles: The First Biography of Architect Charles Correa (2024, Niyogi Books).

Tridip Suhrud

Tridip Suhrud is a scholar, translator, engaged in understanding the life of and thought of M K Gandhi and the mind of modern Gujarat. His recent works include the critical editions of M K Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj and the Autobiography, a two-volume project on editing and translating The Diary of Manu Gandhi, has translated into English the four part canonical Gujarati novel Sarasvatichandra and is currently working on a possible nine volume project, Thumb Printed (three volumes published) on the testimonies of indigo cultivators of Champaran. Tridip Suhrud is a Professor and Provost of CEPT University, Ahmedabad.  He is also a Director of Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad and serves as Chairman of the Governing Council of MICA.