Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director and cultural critic based in Calcutta, India. He is the author of several books including The Question of Faith (1993), In the Name of the Secular (1998), The Politics of Cultural Practice (2000), Rajasthan: An Oral History (2003) and Another Asia (2006). For the last two years he has been the project director of Arna-Jharna: The Desert Museum of Rajasthan.