Lopamudra Maitra is a visual anthropologist, author, and columnist. She works on history, popular culture, and the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of India and South Asia. One of her most preferred areas of work is narratives from popular culture and history. She has been a Culture Specialist (Research) at the SAARC Cultural Centre, Sri Lanka, a Research Grant Fellow of the Indian High Commission, Sri Lanka, an Assistant Professor at Symbiosis International University, Pune (Maharashtra), and presently is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Historical Studies at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, and a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design (NID), Gandhinagar (Gujarat). She continues to be a visiting faculty at various universities across India and abroad.