Dr. Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai - Link to Google Scholar Link to brief profile Link to Newsin.Asia column (Regular column on history, intangible cultural heritage and popular culture of India and South Asia. Newsin.Asia is an international news site, based out of Colombo, Sri Lanka) A Visual Anthropologist, author and international columnist, her work focuses on history, popular culture and intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of India and South Asia. Having a PhD from University of Calcutta along with being a Junior Research Fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), New Delhi she was recently deputed as Culture Specialist (Research) at SAARC Cultural Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka and has also been Research Grant Fellow of the Indian High Commission, Sri Lanka. As a Culture Specialist (Research) at SAARC- she has edited two volumes of prestigious “ SAARC Art ”- covering the intangible cultural heritage of the SAARC region and for the first time, the journal covered all eight