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Arpana Caur
108. Yogi, 2012,Oil on Canvas, 152 x 178 cm
109. Nanak, 2012,Oil on Canvas, 152 x 122 cm
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Dipak Banerjee
193. Nathji, Mixed Media on Canvas, 63 x 48 cm
194. Krishna,Mixed Media on Canvas, 50 x 40 cm
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584. Rama Bhakti Samrajyam, 2007Acrylic on Canvas, 76 x 61 cm
585. Sri Rama Dhanushtankaravam, 2008Acrylic on Canvas, 122 x 01 cm
Pandu Masanam
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Reva Shankar Sharma
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211. Shri Dhanvantari, 2003, Pigments on Board, 60 x 47 cm
G.L.N. Simha
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261. Lord Chaitanya Dancing in Kirtan,Oil on Canvas, 92 x 76 cm
262. Lords Chaitanya and Nityananda Leading Kirtan, 1994Oil on Canvas, 102 x 76 cm
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Tejinder Kanda
805. Benares, 2012Oil on Canvas, 90 x 120 cm
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Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik is a self-taught mythologist based in Mum-bai. He worked in healthcare as a medical doctor for 15 years before turning to his full time passion for writing. He has authored 25 books and 400 articles on the relevance of mythology in modern times. He consults for Star TV and Epic TV and is advisor to the shows’ Devon ke Dev Mahadev and Mahabharata. He is speaker on TED and TV shows Shaastrath and Business Sutra and his views on leadership, manage-
ment and governance have made him a popular speaker at corporate events and business schools.
Dr. George Michell trained as an architect in Melbourne and stud-ied Indian art and archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. For more than 30 years he has worked on many research projects in India, most notably documenting the ruins of Hampi, Vijayanagara. Most recent among his many publica-tions are Mughal Architecture and Gardens, Southern India: A Guide to Monuments, Sites and Museums and Temple Architecture and Art of the
Early Chalukyas.
Jaya Jaitly is the founder of Dastkari Haat Samiti, a national associa-tion for crafts and she is credited with innovating the Dilli Haat mar-ket place in Delhi. She is the former national president of the Samata Party and continues to engage in socio-political issues. Jaya has also authored many books including Vishwakarma’s Children, Craft Tradi-tions of India, Crafts Atlas of India and Crafting Indian Scripts and writ-ten stories for children as well as vast documentation and artistic maps
of the arts, crafts and textiles of India.
Dr. Kenneth R. Valpey is Dean of Studies at Bhaktivedanta College (Belgium) and a researcher at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (UK). He teaches theology and practices of iconology in South Asian religious traditions at the University of Florida and Chinese Univer-sity of Hong Kong. Dr. Valpey authored Attending Krishna’s Image: Caitanya Vaishnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth. He is involved with translating the abridged English version of the Bhagavata Purana for
Columbia University Press. He is a member of ISKCON in the Sanyasi order.
Martin Gurvich, director of the Museum of Sacred Art (Belgium, Italy) and the Gurvich Museum (Uruguay), is an avid art collector and connoisseur. Martin’s passion for art seems natural given his lineage as the son of renowned artist José Gurvich (1927-1974), who left behind an impressive repertoire. Martin has published the book Living Tradi-tions in Indian Art and several catalogues documenting the work by the artists in the MOSA collection. He is also a member of ISKCON,
Hindu Forum (Europe) and URI, a global interfaith organisation.
Sushma K. Bahl, MBE, is the author of 5000 Years of Indian Art and former head of Arts & Culture for the British Council India. She is also an independent arts adviser, writer and curator and organises festivals and cultural projects internationally. She worked on the Festival of India in the UK in 1982 and also in South Korea in 2005. She was the Guest Director for XI Triennale-India 2005, Project Consultant for Bharat Rang Mahotsav X11, Jury Member for the 14th Asian Art Biennale in Bangladesh and curator of India- ASEAN Artists’ Residency & Exhibition 2012. The Ways of Seeing art exhibition curated by her won the IHC Art India Award. She is a trustee/advisory board member of Abhyas Trust and Kala Sakshi Trust, both in Delhi, Arts Acre Foundation in Kolkata, Harjai Global Gurukul in Mumbai, as well as the Firenze Biennale in Italy.As Editor of this huge project Forms of Devotion, she has succeeded in performing a truly remarkable task in creating two volumes of superb quality that encom-pass the entirety of Indian sacred art and has furthermore contributed her own writings to the project.
Dr. Annapurna Garimella studied art history at Columbia University in the United States and is a a designer and an art historian who fo-cuses on the art and architecture of India, based in both Bangalore and Delhi. She heads Jackfruit Research and Design, an organisation that takes on curatorial and publication projects for artists, museums, government and private institutions and NGOs. She has edited and written several books and has contributed essays on contemporary art
to Indian and international journals.
Dr. Desmond Lazaro is a British-born painter and writer currently based in Pondicherry. He learnt miniature painting in Jaipur for his Master’s degree and for his PhD thesis he studied and wrote on Pichhvai painting, which was published by Mapin under the title Methods, Materials and Symbolism in the Pichhvai Painting Tradition of Rajasthan. Dr. Lazaro has been researching on traditional Indian painting techniques and materials. He lectures internationally on this
subject. Some of the countries where his artwork has been exhibited include India, the UK and Germany.
Dr. Madhu Khanna is a Professor of Indic Religions, scholar of Hindu Tantra and Chairperson of Tantra Foundation. She is a Bina and Hari-das Choudhury Distinguished Fellow in Asian and Comparative Stud-ies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She teaches courses in Hinduism, Crosscultural Studies, Religion-Gender, and Religion-Ecology at the Jamia Millia Islamia University. She has co-written Yantra: The Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity and The Tantric Way – Art,
Science & Ritual and edited several books, including Sktapramodah of Deva Nandan Singh.
Professor Mushirul Hasan is a Padma Shri Awardee and Cambridge graduate. He was formerly Director General, National Archives of In-dia, Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University and has been a visiting professor at several universities in Europe and North America. He was awarded l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by France. He has written several books on India’s partition and India’s contemporary history, the plurality and syncretism of Indian social life, and Islamic
traditions in South Asia. His most recent is Faith and Freedom: Gandhi in History (Niyogi).
Steven J. Rosen (Satyaraja Dasa) is a biographer, scholar and author in the fields of philosophy, religion, spirituality and music. He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Vaishnava Studies and associate editor of Back to Godhead magazine. He has written thirty-one books that have been published in numerous languages. Some popu-lar titles include Essential Hinduism, The Yoga of Kirtan: Conversations on the Sacred Art of Chanting, and Krishna’s Other Song: A New Look
at the Uddhava Gita.
