Author: Virchand Dharamsey
Bio: Virchand Dharamsey (b 1935) is a freelance researcher. In large circles of artistic, literary and scholarly world his presence is to be reckoned with. As a member of an 
archeaological team (1980-1994) of the University of Pennsylvania, has participated in a number of field excavations in Gujarat. He traveled all over India and Sri Lanka to study 
temple architecture. He assembled the definitive filmography, Light of India, 1994), contributed the sections of silent and early Indian cinema  (Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willeman, 1999). He was co author with Beatrix Pfleiderer Die besessenen Frauen 
von Mira Datar Dargah: Heilen and Trance in Indien (German) 1994 also translated into English under the title The Read Thread, 2006.