Prof Alok Rai

Dr Aparna Mahiyaria

Dr James Kippen

Dr James Kippen is Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology. He studied under the pianist and conductor David Parry before developing an interest in Hindustani music and Javanese gamelan at the University of York (UK) under Neil Sorrell. He studied Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology under John Blacking and John Baily at Queen's University, Belfast. His doctoral research in Lucknow, India, dealt with tabla drumming in its sociocultural context, particularly as interpreted by his teacher, the hereditary master Afaq Hussain Khan. He held two post-doctoral fellowships for computer-assisted musical analysis, and taught Anthropology and Ethnomusicology courses at Queen’s before joining the University of Toronto in January 1990. Since then he has been awarded three major research grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada to pursue investigations into cultural concepts of time in Indian music and society, and the changing theory and practice of rhythm and metre in Hindustani music. He continues to study and practise both tabla and pakhavaj drums. He also studies and performs Balinese gendèr wayang music with the ensemble Seka Rat Nadi.

John Campana

Sh Jyoti Swarup Pande

Keval Arora

Sh Keval Arora is a renowned teacher, theatre person and cultural critic based in Delhi. For more than 40 years, he taught English Literature at Kirori Mal College, Delhi. He shaped and supervised Players, the celebrated theatre society of the college. He has mentored countless actors, writers, teachers and performers over the years.

Mrs Rita Jhunjhunwala

Sh Ved Gupta