ABOUT THE AUTHOR Behram Contractor
Behram Contractor (1930-2001), born and brought up in Mumbai, was a Bombay man to the core. His journalistic career spanned over forty-two years. He worked with the Free Press Journal, the Times of India and Mid-day, from where he left as executive editor to launch his own paper, the Afternoon Despatch & Courier in 1985. His column ‘Round and About’, which he wrote under the pseudonym of Busybee, had a large fan following. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990 and the B.D. Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1996.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Shulman
David Shulman is Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author of several works on Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit literature and poetics, and on the history of religion in South India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sanjay Subrahmanyam
SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM is professor and holder of the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama and the two-volume Explorations in Connected History.
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