Katharina Kakar is a writer and artist based in Goa, where she also runs an NGO-the Tara Trust-involved in education for deprived children. She is the author, with her husbend Sudhir Kakar, of The Indians: Portrait of a people (2007).Sudhir Kakar is a distinguished psychoanalyst and writer. He has written seventeen highly acclaimed books of non-fiction, which include, among others, The Inner World (now in its sixteenth printing since its first publication in 1978), Shamans, Mystics and Doctors, Intimate Relations, The Colours of Violence and, most recently , Young Tagore : The Makings of a Genius.
