Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri is an editor, publisher and writer, with a keen interest in films, music and poetry. As an editor he has worked with leading Indian authors like Arun Shourie, Gulzar, Kiran Nagarkar, Manu Joseph and others. Books commissioned and edited by him have won the National Award and the MAMI Award for Best Writing on Cinema. His articles have appeared in Film Companion, Cinemaazi, The Daily Eye, Outlook and The Wire.