Aswin Punathambekar is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA. He is the author of From Bombay to Bollywood and co-editor of Global Bollywood and Television at Large in South Asia. He has also published articles in journals such as Media, Culture and Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, and Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture. Shanti Kumar is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio, TV and Film at the University of Texas-Austin, USA. He is the author of Gandhi Meets Primetime, and co-editor of Planet TV, Television at Large in South Asia and Global Communication. He has published articles in journals such as BioScope, Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture, South Asian Popular Culture, Television and New Media, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video.