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Prof. Ratan Parimoo is a noted art historian and critic and art teacher who has specialized in traditional and contemporary arts of India.  He was Head of the Department of Art History & Aesthetics from 1966 to 1991 at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.  As a Commonwealth scholar, Prof. Parimoo studied History of European Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1960-63).  He received the Rockfeller Grant to study in the USA in 1974.  He was invited to participate in the twenty third World congress of the International Society of Education through Art, held in Autralia in 1968.

He is the editor of the encyclopaedic critical anthology Creative Arts in Modern India.  In 2010 he edited “Historical Development of Contemporary Indian Art 1880-1947.”  His publications include Paintings of the three Tagores: Abanindranath, Gaganendranath and Rabindranath; Studies in Modern Indian Art; Sculptures of Sheshasayi Vishnu; and Essays on New Art History: Studies in Indian Sculpture.  He is also an eminent painter.

Gauri Parimoo Krishan is currently engaged in the development of the Indian Heritage Centre project supported by the Singapore government as its Director. She developed the Indian collection as the Senior Curator for South Asia at the Asian Civilisations Museum and was the Deputy Director of Research and Publication for the museum before moving into her present role in 2011.

She received Singapore Government's Commendation Medal Pingat Kepujian in honour of her contribution to the development of viewing the devangana sculptures as a continuation of the yaksi sculptures found on Buddhist and Jaina monuments and the concept of primordial mother goddesses of the Vedic times, this challenging work on the devangana sculptures studies the morphology, iconology and the Asian Civilisations Museum's collections, galleries, exhibition and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Amerivan Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon; Monash University, Melbourne and the National Heritage Board.