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Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala was a Sri Lankan paleontologist, zoologist, and artist. He specialised in fauna and human fossils of the Indian subcontinent. From 1939 to 1963, he was the director of the National Museum of Ceylon, and from 1961 to 1964, he was also the dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Vidyodaya University.

Pepita Seth was born in Suffolk in 1942. She studied film editing and gained opportunities to work under film directors like Ted Kotcheff and Stanley Donen. On finding the diary of her grandfather, she decided to trace his life with the British Army in India. She landed in Kolkata in 1970. She travelled from Kolkata to Guruvayur where she became fascinated by the temple arts and rituals of Kerala. For the next nine years, she visited Kerala several times and, in 1979, she settled in Guruvayur. Eventually the Guruvayur Devaswom Board allowed her access to the temple. She has published many books and articles on the temple arts and rituals. In recognition of her services to the fields of art and culture, the Government of India, in 2012, bestowed on her the civilian award of Padma Shri.