Kanav Gupta is a Research Fellow at the Department of Music, University of Nottingham, UK, and the Vittore Branca Fellow 2024/2025, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy.  For the first time, many of the above-mentioned letters will be published in his forthcoming book Dispatches from Europe: Alain Daniélou’s Correspondences with Indian Musicians and Dancers (c.1965–c.1980), NOTA: Udine, 2026.