Ankur Sharma

Ankur, the founder of Culturazzi is an engineering graduate from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. With passions that are bafflingly eclectic Ankur’s appetite for world cinema, writing, travelling and music (or for that matter any aspect of art or culture) are unquenchable! In his professional avatar, Ankur takes care of Marketing at Drishti, a young, dynamic start-up in Gurgaon, but personally, his current ambition is to make Culturazzi a worldwide phenomenon. Ankur makes it a point to catch at least 3 movies a week and work into owl hours for Culturazzi. A spot on maverick in spirit, Ankur’s ambition is to dream of and materialise new ideas aimed at making the world a culturally flat, connected and evolved place. Ankur also maintains Drishti’s corporate blog, and scribbles occasionally in his personal blog.

Samakshi S.

Samakshi the co-founder of Culturazzi is doing her final year in Media and Communications. Although she has a keen interest in books, writing, photography and films, Samakshi can have equally fulfilling and cheerful days in doing perfectly nothing. Samakshi has written for Southern India publications, and hopes to be a successful creative professional someday. Her favourite novel is Tagore’s Choker Bali. Ankur and Samakshi work as a team to not only take Culturazzi to towering heights, but to also think and execute new ideas.

Srikanth Srinivasan

Srikanth is a cinemaniac from Bangalore, India and loves watching movies of all kinds from across the world. He believes that cinema increases people’s sensitivities and sensibilities and only cinema has the power to bring people together irrespective of ethnic, geographical and social differences. Through his posts at Culturazzi, he intends to gather like-minded film buffs and interact with them. He maintains a film blog called The Seventh Art and is an engineer.

Shubajit Lahiri

Shubhajit Lahiri might be a certified mechanical engineer, he might be a professional in the making in the hi-tech world of geeks and morons, and his so-called expertise might lie in something as abstruse as Finite Elements Mechanics, but fortunately his passion and his calling lie elsewhere. He is into something called cinema. People call him a movie lover; he calls himself a cinephile crocodile. What the heck, he loves the artistic side of life – which happens to be the very antithesis of what his corporate colleagues would have him believe. He loves books – graphic as well as the conventional ones with black prints on white paper; and he loves being fed on a heady dose of music – doesn’t matter if it’s a lyrical folksy ballad or a blast of hard rock and metal. And given a chance he would like to put the Karan Johar’s and the Kareena Kapoor’s of the world to solitary confinement for life without parole (disrespect intended), for giving his ‘love’ a bad name. You might also find his opinionated musings on films at his blog – for the uninitiated (read: those who just returned after a 300 year exploration of planet Krypton) an online diary – Cinemascope.

Padma S.

Padma is currently a Communications student, doing her final year of college. She enjoys watching Japanese animation and writing fiction mostly, aspiring to be a successful author someday. As of now she is happy to work on her writing, scripting reviews is a new thing, but she takes pleasure in doing it as it gives her a chance to broaden her horizons. In her spare time she reads comics and Agatha Christie, listens to music and watches insane amounts of television.

Priyanka Blah

Priyanka is a writer by profession and a travelling nomad at heart. She has written for various publications including Rolling Stone India and is currently the content planner and writer for official celebrity websites. Her love for writing stems from her inherent passion for travel and she travels out of the city every 40 days. New places, new experiences and new people make her happy and motivate her towards her goal, which is to contribute towards giving the world a lot more to think about apart from petty politics and Paris Hilton’s latest bikini.

Culturazzo Updates

1. Congratulations to Shubajit Lahiri for joining the editorial team at Culturazzi!