Biographical sketch:

Alka Hingorani's interests in Indian art lie geographically in the lower Himalayas, and thematically in issues of aesthetics and identity. She has recently completed work on a book of mohras and mohra-makers in Himachal Pradesh, called "Making Faces: Self and Image Creation in a Himalayan Valley" (University of Hawai'i Press, 2013), which came out late last year. She holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture, an MA in Photography and a PhD in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. She is (soon to be) Associate Professor in the Design department at IIT­‐Bombay.