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Sushma Bahl
Sushma Bahl, MBE, is an independent arts consultant and curator of cultural projects. As Head
of Arts Dept. British Council India until April 2003, she led on their cultural policy and program,
spearheading several initiatives including the first ever Festival of India in Britain and the Enduring
Image exhibition from the British Museum with its numerous associated events besides collaborative
projects in visual and performing arts. Over the last few years, as a freelance consultant she has
curated a series of art exhibitions including Fair & Furious based on the theme of women, Keep the
Promise to help raise funds for UN’s Millennium Development Goals, Contemporary Chronicles in
Miniature Art of works from India and Pakistan, Ways of Seeing that won the IHC Art India Award
as the best curated group show, Vistaar involving collaboration between artists and designers and
Annanya an overview of contemporary Indian art. She has edited and written for artists’ books
including those on Thota Vaikuntam, Paresh Maity and Satish Gupta while a book on Shuvaprasanna
is currently in the making. Sushma was the Co-Director for Indian arts at the Gwacheon Hanmadang
Festival in South Korea 2004, Guest Director for XI Triennale-India 2005, Co-curator for V9/U9 Indo-
UK digital art project and Art Link Indo-German artists’ residency 2006 & 7 and Project Consultant
for Bharat Rang Mahotsav XII in Jan 2010. A Jury Board Member of the 14th Asian Art Biennale
2010 in Bangladesh. She is a trustee/advisory panel member of several arts institutions including the
National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi and Florence Biennale in Italy.
Bindu Puri
Bindu Puri teaches philosophy at the Department of Philosophy University of Delhi. She is interested
in problems in moral philosophy and has been seriously engaged in articulating and recovering
the Gandhian legacy. She has published papers in various national and international professional
journals and in edited anthologies around these and related subjects. She is the author of Gandhi
and the Moral Life,(2004).She has edited Mahatma Gandhi And His Contemporaries(2002).She has
also co- edited two volumes with Heiko Seivers for the Oxford University Press. Reason morality
and Beauty; Essays on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Volume1, (2006) and Terror, Peace and
Universalism. Essays on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Volume 2(2006).
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