Contributors SATISH DESHPANDE teaches Sociology at University of Hyderabad. R. SRIVATSAN is an engineer, computer scientist and independent scholar based in Hyderabad. ASHISH RAJADHYAKSHA is an independent critic on Indian cinema and related cultural issues. He is completing an encyclopaedia of Indian film for the British Film Institute. MADHAVA PRASAD is completing a Ph.D. dissertation on 1970s Hindi cinema at University of Pittsburgh. SIBAJI BANDYOPADHYAY teaches Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. SASHEEJ HEGDE teaches Sociology at Goa University. VIVEK DHARESHWAR is Fellow in the Social Bases of Culture at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. V. GEETHA is an independent scholar and activist based in Madras. She is completing a major study of the non-Brahmin movement in collaboration with S.V. Rajadurai. TEJASWINI NIRANJANA teaches in the English Department at University of Hyderabad.