A journalist and filmmaker, Bhaskar Bhattacharyya was born in the Himalayas of Bengali parents, brought up in East Africa, and educated in England. He then returned to India and continued his studies with Gopinath Kavirag, one of India's foremost Tantric scholars. He now lives in northern India with his wife and family.
Nik Douglas' pioneering work on Tantra over the past two decades has resulted in a movie, Tantra: Indian Rites of Ecstasy, and several books, including the best-selling Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy with Penny Slinger. An important modern surrealist artist, Penny Slinger has had her work widely exhibited and published in the United States and Europe.