Shivaji K Panikkar teaches at the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, M.S. University of Baroda. He is the author of Saptamatrka Worship and Sculpture: An Iconological Interpretation of Conflicts and Resolution in the 'Storied' Brahmanical Icons, Twentieth Century Indian Sculpture: Last Two Decades (ed) and the exhibition catalogue Creative Process: Tangible Realities, Concrete Myths are among his publications. He is presently engaged in writing on art developments in Madras since the 1940s.