Behind the Big Screen

Suchitra lyer was the editor of Society, a high-profile lifestyle magazine, for close to nine years. She is now a consultant editor for the magazine and has mentored several journalists. She has also worked for Citadel, a magazine of the Magna Publishing Co. Prior to her days as an editor, she worked in the field of qualitative market research for agencies like PQR-IMRB and TNS Mode. She translated Raaj Grover's memoir, Yaadein Zara Zara, from Hindi to English, which was published as Legends of Bollywood. She also assisted international arbitrator Sarosh Zaiwalla with writing his memoir. Presently, she is working on a biography on educationist and social reformer Achyuta Samanta from Bhubaneswar, Orissa and is editing a self-help book.

Sunanda Mehta is a former resident editor of the Indian Express, Pune. With over 25 years of experience in journalism, she was also the first woman editor of a national daily in the city. Previously, she worked for Femina and headed the Pune bureau of Magna Publications and was founder-editor of Citadel, a Pune city magazine from Magna. She has written for various publications like Hindustan Times, Savvy, Society, Mumbai Mirror, Health & Nutrition and Saveur. A visiting faculty at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, she is a Chevening fellow, has presented a paper at Warwick University in the UK on the portrayal of women in Indian television and has featured in an award-