Dr Rashmi Doraiswamy, India, studied Russian language and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her doctoral thesis was on Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian philosopher. She is Professor at the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. She was the recipient of the National Award for the Best Film Critic in 1994. She was awarded the MAJLIS research fellowship in 1999 for a project entitled ‘Changing Narrative Strategies of Hindi Cinema’. Her writings on literature and cinema have been published in prestigious Indian and foreign publications and include THE POST-SOVIET CONDITION: CHINGIZ AITMATOV IN THE ’90S (2005), GURU DUTT: THROUGH LIGHT AND SHADE (2008). She is co-editor of BEING AND BECOMING: THE CINEMAS OF ASIA (2002), GLOBALISATION AND THE THIRD WORLD (2009) and ASIAN FILM JOURNEYS: SELECTIONS FROM CINEMAYA (2010). She has served on several film festival and critics juries in India and abroad (Mannheim, Taipei, Sochi, Toronto, Karlovy Vary, Alma Ata, Busan, Astana, Warsaw). She has been invited to deliver lectures at many universities all over the world.