Saudiptendu Ray is a Research Associate at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. He has completed his Master's in Modern Indian History from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi. He graduated with a degree in History from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. He also has a Master’s in Museology from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. He has worked with museums of national repute for close to seven years. At the Partition Museum, he documented the oral histories of more than a hundred partition survivors. He has worked on the Prime Minister’s Museum Project at NMML. At the National Museum, he has done extensive research on the evolution of firearms technology in the Indian subcontinent based on the collection of the museum. Additionally, his areas of interest are oral history, script writing and Indian military history.