Sarat Maharaj

Sarat Maharaj (born 1951 in Durban, South Africa) is a writer, researcher, curator, and professor.

[1] Maharaj's family was part of the large group of Indians who migrated to the province of KwaZulu-Natal in the nineteenth century.

As a child, Maharaj witnessed the effects of racial segregation under the Apartheid regime.

His thesis was The Dialectic of Modernism and Mass Culture: Studies in Post War British Art.

Maharaj has held visiting professorships and fellowships at several institutions including Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht and Humboldt University, Berlin.