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Madhu Jain

Madhu Jain is currently the editor of The Indian Quarterly, published from Mumbai. She was educated at Connecticut College in the United States, following which she did her Masters in literature from Delhi University and studied Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. In the seventies she worked as a reporter for The Statesman, moving toward the end of the decade to Sunday magazine to write on politics, culture and foreign affairs. During her time there she also wrote for The Telegraph and Ananda Bazar Patrika. She was also the New Delhi correspondent with the French national daily, La Croix, for a decade before she joined India Today in 1986, where she remained until 2000. Since then she has written for several publications, including Outlook, the Hindu, Verve, Crest, DNA, the Washingtonian, and India Today. She is the author of book, The Kapoors. The First Family of Indian Cinema, and has written chapters for many books. She has curated two art exhibitions—“Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai” on kitsch and the contemporary imagination and the other on the painter Viswanadhan. She won the Habitat Arts Award for Curatorial Excellence for the “Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai” exhibition.