CONTRIBUTORS MALINIBHATTACHARYA is in the Department of'English, Jadhavpur University, Calcutta. MIHIRBHATTACHARYA is in the Department of English, Jadhavpur University, Calcutta. ANIL BHATTI is Associate Professor, Centre of German Studies, Jawa-harlal Nehru University, New Delhi. G P DESHPANDE is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University^ New Delhi. 'GEETA KAPOOR is an art critic from Delhi. ROM1KHOSLA is an architect from Delhi. SAEED AKHTAR MIR^A is a film director from Bombay. SAROJMOHAN MITRA is a teacher and critic from Calcutta. G B MOHAN is Reader 'in English, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. KALPANA SAHNI is Assistant Professor, Centre a/Russian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. FROM THE EDITOR The present issue of Social Scientist is devoted exclusively to a discussion on Marxian position on aesthetics, and we have selected some papers presented at the seminar on Marxism and Aesthetics held at Kasauli in October 1979. Our thanks are due to G P Deshpande, Anil Bhatti and Vivan Sundaram, convenors of the seminar, and to Jean Chapman for secretarial assistance. We intend to publish a bibliography of writings in Indian languages on aesthetics in general and Marxian perspective on the same in particular. Readers are requested to send their suggestions and titles they would like to be included in the bibliography to G P Deshpande.