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A. Purushithaman and A. Harindranath grew up in the temple town of Guruvayur in Kerala, watching Krsnattam palys and generally imbibing the culture of the land. They have written on the traditional arts of Kerala, translated writings from Malayalam sources, Photographed performances and propagated them through print and audio-visual media. By profession, A. Purushothaman is  achemical engineer currently working in Mumbai, while A. Harindranath is a professor of physics  at Calcutta.

L.S. Rajagopaln (1922-2008) enjoyed a well deserved reputation as an authority on the traditional theatre and music of Kerala. He studied and explored these arts all his life – in temple precincts, the countryside, and the by-lances of town and city-and sought to unravel their meaning through his writing, lectures, and personal guidance in scholarly fieldwork. Rajagopalan’s special interests lay in Krsnattam, Kutiyattam, kathakali, and the folk music and musical instruments of Kerala. He has also delved deep into the musical aspects of Vedic chanting and Carnatic music.

Rajagopalan’s publications include Women’s Role in Kutiyattam (1997), and Kutiyattam: Preliminaries and Performance (2000). He published articles on Various topics concerning the arts of Kerala, and contributed the entry on Kutiyattam in the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Theatre and Performance (2003) edited by Dennis Kennedy.