Aditi De is Bengali by birth, south Indian by choice, and has been a Bangalorean since May 1992. Between May 1992 and December 1999, she edited the Sunday Herald, Articulations and Open Sesame supplements at Deccan Herald, Bengaluru/Bangalore. Earlier, she worked for the Indian Express in Chennai/ Madras for twelve years from June 1976. She launched the popular children's magazine, Junior Quest for the Chandamama group in February 1989. Her books include Articulations: Voices from Contemporary Indian Visual Art (Rupa & Co., 2004) and A Twist in the Tale: More Indian Folktales (Puffin India, 2005). She is the co-author of Lines from an Artistic Life: The Drawings of Adimoolam (Mapin/ Lund Humphries, 2007), Manu Parekh: Eternity Watches Time (Mapin/ Lund Humphries, 2007) and Rustic Ragas: Inner Melodies of Thota Vaikuntam (Timeless Books/ AbMaa Publishing, 2008).