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Jyotindra Jain, Director of the National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, popularly known as The Crafts Museum, New Delhi, is recognized as one of the most eminent historians of Indian tribal and folk arts. He obtained a Master’s degree in Ancient Indian Culture from Bombay University, followed by a Ph.D. in anthropology and Indology from the University of Vienna. He has since conducted extensive ethnographic field research in a number of states in India with a focus on the folk and tribal religions of Western India, and has set up the Shreyas Folk Museum of Gujarat. Dr. Jain has several publications on rituals and ritual arts of India o his credit, and exhibitions curated by him on various aspects of traditional Indian art have been shown in India and abroad. He has been a consultant and a visiting scholar to several mueums and institutions around the world. He is currently working on a book, Kalighat Painting.

Pramod Kumar KG is the Managing Director of the Delhi-based Eka Archiving Services Pvt. Ltd. – India’s first museum consulting company. He is the consultant curator for the City Palace Museum, Udaipur and was until recently Associate Director of the Alkazi Foundation, which holds the Alkazi Collection of Photography. He established the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing in 2005, and was its Founder-Director. During his tenure as the Director of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation, Pramod KG organised the Jaipur Heritage International Festival and founded the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2005.