lives in Trivandrum, Kerala. He has been employed with UN organizations for over 20 years, specializing in resource mobilization for international non-profit agricultural research. Earlier, he was a film critic with the Hindustan Times Group in New Delhi from 1978 to 1985, and continues to write on good quality international cinema. Jugu’s blog on international cinema at http://moviessansfrontiers.blogspot.com is quite popular with readers in the Americas and Europe.