Geeti Sen is a cultural historian, professor, art critic and editor trained at the Universities of Chicago and Calcutta. She is a prominent figure in the Indian cultural world and has been invited to speak in many parts of the world: the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Ireland, France, Spain, Brazil and Russia. Sen was the art critic for The Times of India in Mumbai and the Assistant Editor at Marg, the prestigious art journal from Mumbai. Later, she was the art critic for India Today, New Delhi. From 1990 to 2006, Sen was appointed the Chief Editor at the India International Centre, New Delhi. In 2009, she was selected as the first Director of the Indian Cultural Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal. Sen is the author of several books, including Paintings from the Akbar Nama: A Visual Chronicle of Mughal India (1984), Feminine Fables: Imaging the Indian Woman in Painting, Photography and Cinema (2002), Revelations: Ganesh Pyne (2002), Your History Gets in the Way of My Memory (2012) and Bindu: Space and Time in Raza's Vision (1992, reprint 2020).