Kaustav Bakshi (2 Posts)

Kaustav Bakshi is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He is pursuing a doctoral programme on Expatriate Sri Lankan Fiction in English at the Department of English, Jadavpur University. Apart from presenting papers at several national and international conferences and regularly contributing to academic journals, he has co-edited two anthologies, Anxieties, Influences and After: Critical Responses to Post colonialism and Neocolonialism and Studies in Indian English Poetry.

Krupa Shah (1 Post)

Krupa Shah teaches English at VIT University, Chennai. She has a PhD in Translation Studies from the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar. Her research interests include the cultural and literary history of twentieth century Gujarat, questions of language, identity and multilingualism in South Asia, film studies and francophone literature. She is also a translator and works with English, French and Gujarati with varying degrees of fluency. She can be reached at krupa.2586@gmail.com. She blogs at Krupa Shah

Kunal Desai (2 Posts)

I have had a passion for music, listening to film and instrumental music since early childhood. Learnt to play Harmonium at early age and later now learning Piano. Also have been playing percussion instruments for some time. I did my Post graduate certification from IIM-C. Working in Supply Chain Management field for over 15 years now.

Kusumita Rakshit (2 Posts)

Kusumita Rakshit has been a student of fine arts and photography at the Berkeley Art Studio, University of California, Berkeley. She holds degrees in economics and business management and taught graphic designing and digital editing at Biju Pattanaik Film and Television Institute, India. Her interests lie in the exploration of the political and sociological ramifications of visual arts including, but not limited to, films.

Silhouette Magazine Bureau (19 Posts)

Silhouette Magazine is a platform for gathering myriad views on film (and allied art forms) and to continue with the flux of discourse. The Silhouette publications are our attempt to achieve this goal.

Soumyadeep Chakrabarti (1 Post)

Soumyadeep Chakrabarti has been a lifelong admirer of Indian classical music, Rabindra Sangeet and the works of Salil Chowdhury, a love nurtured by his father, Pradeep Kumar Chakrabarti, a sitarist and disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar, whose vast record collection shaped his early musical world. His mother, Rina Chakrabarti, a published writer of short stories, further deepened his appreciation for literature and the arts. Professionally, Soumyadeep works in pharmaceutical sales promotion. Outside work, he is an ardent devotee of old-school cricket and a passionate admirer of the films of Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Ever in search of all things bright and beautiful, he brings a keen, reflective sensibility to his writing on music and culture.