What Do Our Divine Companions Tell Us?

Asijit Datta works as an Associate Professor at Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication (Symbiosis University, Pune). He is part of the Board of Directors of The Posthuman Lab (Canada), the Editorial Board of the journal, “Studies in the Fantastic” (published by the University of Tampa Press), and Vulnerability Studies Network (University of Hyderabad).

His research and publications primarily focus on the areas of Posthumanism, Beckett Studies, Film Studies, Disability Studies, and Psychoanalysis. To support the uninterrupted growth of academicians and aspiring scholars, he runs an independent YouTube channel that houses conversations with some of the most renowned theorists and authors across the globe

Mrinal Kulkarni is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Art History and Art Appreciation, Faculty of Fine Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Studied BFA and MFA in Art History and Aesthetics from Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Vadodara and has a PhD from Jamia Millia Islamia, on Visuality of Body and Related Issues of Gender: Analysing New media art of India Research interests are in the feminist study of contemporary visual art practices, New media art and curatorial practices. Have been teaching art history more than two decades. Contributes articles in journals and websites like Lalit Kala contemporary, Art & Deal, matterofart.com and artconceerns.com.

Presented papers in various international conferences on art education, new media art such cultural spaces and art education, studio practice and art education, art integrated learning in school edication feminist concerns in Indian art and art from neighbouring countries and post humanist concerns in new media art. Provided consultancies to develop e-contents on art history and art education. Conducted workshops on performance art, conceptual art projects, art appreciation and museum studies. Curated exhibitions like Small But Significant(2001), The Closet/Closets(2002), HEAT(2002), Dreams Projects Unrealised(2004), Twilight Zone(2004), Old Girls of Jamia I & II(2014) and so on.

K. Kesava Rajarajan (alias R.K.K. Rajarajan), Director, Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, the Gandhigram Rural Institute Deemed to be University, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu. He has worked as an Associate Professor in Visual Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and at the Eritrean Institute of Technology, Asmara. He is a prolific contributor to international journals.

He has published works from the Netherlands, Helsinki, Cluj-Napoca, Cracow, Rome, Naples, Berlin, Reinbeck, Oxford & IBH, Routledge, Bangkok, Bangladesh, and others in India. He has presented forty-nine conference papers and delivered over fifty lectures in national and international arenas. His works on Samapti-Suprabhātam – Reflections on South Indian Bhakti Tradition in Literature and Art (with Raju Kalidos & K. Parthiban, 2017), Masterpieces of Indian Literature and Art – Tears of Kannaki: Annals and Iconology of the ‘Cilappatikāram’ (2016), Rock- cut Model Shrines in Early Medieval Indian Art (2012), Art of the Vijayanagara Nãyakas: Architecture and Iconography 2 vols. (2006), and Mīnāksī-Sundareśvara: Tiruvilaiyātar Purānam in Letters, Design and Art (2013) in collaboration are norm-setting.

Hari Kumar is an author, screenwriter and filmmaker. He has authored 9 bestselling books with HarperCollins, including Daiva, Naaga, India’s Most Haunted and Dakini. He has penned the screenplay of Bhram, E and has appeared as a speaker on popular podcasts like The Ranveer Show, Dostcast, Speaking Tree, HT Smartcast, Aajtak, Radio One, etc. He currently hosts CHATURYA – THE FOURTH STATE, the trending Youtube Channel, where he explores fascinating tales and concepts from Indic Puranas, regional folklore, spirituality and global mythology.