Current Affairs
DisegnoDaily
London
Article about the Design Museum’s designs of the year exhibition.
Talks
BBC Radio 4: How should museums reflect changing social attitudes?
BBC Radio 4
London
Guest speaker on BBC Radio 4’s culture programme Front Row.
Research, Talks
Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
London
Lecture about curating art and culture to further international relations.
Museum Projects
Flashmob at Museum of London
Museum Detox
London
Co-organiser of a pro-diversity flashmob featured in The Guardian newspaper.
Articles
Not Just a Red Hook
DisegnoDaily
London
A short essay on designer Michael Marriott’s new project with the National Trust.
Arts Management, Curating
Reimagine India: curating cultural collaborations
British Council
New Delhi
As Head of Arts for the British Council in India, worked with 22 UK arts organisations to realise new work in India.
Articles, Museum Projects, Research
Searching for Silver in the Darkness
Jewellery History Today
Invited to write about an object in the V&A’s collection: a striking silver bracelet from pre-partition India.
Books
Beyond the Border Short Story Anthology
Dahlia Publishing
Published short story titled Don’t Tell the Children in an anthology of contemporary writing.
Talks
India Design Forum
Make In India Week
Mumbai
Speaker at the India Design Forum event Empowering Through Design during Make in India Week.
Arts Management, Curating
UK India Year of Culture in 2017
British Council
New Delhi
Member of core British Council team that conceived and launched UK India 2017, a curated year of culture between the two countries.
Talks
Poison in Agatha Christie’s work
Crime Writers' Festival
New Delhi
Invited to take part in a panel discussion at Crime Writers’ Literature Festival in New Delhi.
Articles, Arts Management, Curating
BBC Arts Hour: How Tolerant is Indian Culture of New Ideas?
British Council
New Delhi
Blog post for British Council India microsite about BBC Arts Hour discussion broadcast live from our theatre in New Delhi
Articles
Cutting the Bulk
Disegno Magazine
Essay about lighting designer Michael Anastassiades’ first sofa design project for SCP
Articles
India Past and Present
Disegno Magazine
Commissioned to write an essay about contemporary Indian design and its relationship with craft and history for Disegno Magazine’s biannual print edition.
Books, Curating, Exhibitions
Word Art Exhibition Book
Word Art Collective
Editor and co-author of exhibition catalogue to accompany the exhibition Word Art held at Arch402, Hoxton Arches.
Museum Projects
The Wolsey Angels Saved for the Nation
Victoria and Albert Museum
Managed a campaign to save the £5 million Wolsey Angels for the nation as Development Manager at the V&A.
Articles
Designing Modern Women 1890–1990
Disegno Daily
New York
Review of an exhibition focussed on female designers at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Articles
Figuratively speaking: Capturing the Essence of Indian Jewellery
Unmaking Things
Essay about silver jewellery from South Asia in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection, based on research for MA in the History of Design at the Royal College of Art.
Articles
The contemporary legacy of Charles Correa
Disegno Daily
Mumbai
Reflections on the relationship between the work of a visionary Indian architect and the reality of architecture in India now.
Arts Management
Trustee of Chisenhale Gallery
Chisenhale Gallery
East London
Trustee of a cutting-edge East London gallery and ACE National Portfolio Organisation for more than four years.
Research
A New India: Defining Urban Space in Navi Mumbai
Royal College of Art
Research on urban space in the New India for MA Dissertation at Royal College of Art. Sponsored by the Montjoie Prize and awarded the Dissertation Prize.
Books
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
Bloomsbury Academic Publishing
Contributed a series of peer reviewed encyclopedia entries about seminal design thinkers.
Articles
Building in the Vernacular: Charles Correa and the idea of India
The Sunday Guardian
Review of exhibition about the work of eminent architect Charles Correa at the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Articles
Collective 2
Disegno Daily
New York
Review of New York’s premier design fair, Collective 2, during NYCxDesign.
Curating, Exhibitions
Word Art Exhibition
Word Art Collective
As Founder and Director of the Word Art Collective, curated an exhibition of commissioned works of art, design and language supported by the European Commission.
Museum Projects
Contemporary Design Acquisitions
Victoria and Albert Museum
Managed the Design Fund to enable the V&A to acquire contemporary objects and enhance its design collection.
Museum Projects
The Medal Cabinet Appeal
Victoria and Albert Museum
Managed a campaign to save a rare medal cabinet from export as a member of the V&A’s Development department.
Exhibitions
Memory Palace
Victoria and Albert Museum
Spokesperson for V&A exhibition of contemporary graphic design and illustration accompanied by a novel by Hari Kunzru.
Talks
Modern Indian Design: Women Transforming Boundaries
Rich Mix, Shoreditch
Chair of panel discussion with emerging female designers who are melding different aesthetics to produce striking results. Organised by SAWCC.
Exhibitions
Le Gun at the Back Room Gallery
Back Room Gallery
The Exhibitionist Hotel
Curated an installation by illustration collective Le Gun as the Back Room Gallery’s debut exhibition.
Articles
Design for All Institute of India
Industrial Designers Society of America
Invited by the Industrial Designers Society of America to contribute to a paper about universal design.
Articles
“Objectifying” Mad Men
Unmaking Things
Article about the fetishised objects advertised by the fictional agency at the centre of Mad Men.
Articles
Junk Food For Thought
Tehelka Magazine
Review of exhibition by artist Asim Waqif at Nature Morte in New Delhi for a national Indian magazine.
Articles
Kumar straddles the line between history and memoir
The Sunday Guardian
Book review of Amitava Kumar’s novelistic biography of Patna, a breezy, thought-provoking account of one of India’s ‘B-towns’.
Articles
Design Conference Makes History
The Sunday Guardian
Article about the first ever Design History Society conference to take place outside of Europe.
Books, Talks
South Asian Literature Festival
South Asian Literature Festival
London
Reading and panel discussion about my short fiction at the South Asian Literature Festival.
Research
Urban space in India now
V&A History of Design Bulletin
My research on urban space in contemporary India featured in the V&A History of Design Bulletin.
Articles
A lesson in recycling
Disegno Daily
Review of ideas behind Petit h, a new line of Hermès exhibited in London for the first time.
Museum Projects, Talks
The Wild West – Was Postmodernism a global phenomenon?
Victoria and Albert Museum
Reflected on the question of Postmodernism beyond the ‘West’ in a talk at a Friday Late at the V&A.
Exhibitions
A New India: Defining Urban Space in Navi Mumbai
RCA Show
Royal College of Art
Exhibited research about urban design in India now as part of the RCA graduate exhibition.
Articles
‘Life, Oh Life’ Kofi Allen, Artist, a portrait by Priya Khanchandani
Wasafiri
Long read for a literary journal of international writing about a visual artist’s photographs of the city.
Articles
L’Abbraccio by Gaetano Pesce
Disegno Daily
New York
Exhibition review of L’Abbraccio by Gaetano Pesce at Fred Torres Collaborations during New York Design Week.
Quotes
‘I called it Ali Baba’s Cave where I kept all my treasures…”
Pascale Mussard, Hermès
Cited From Disegno Daily Article about Hermes' Petit h range
Awards, Books
Asian Writer Short Story Prize
Nominated for the story A Done Deal, which challenges taboos about female sexuality and is published in anthology Five Degrees.
Articles
Everyday objects in fine art: The Liverpool Biennial
Unmaking Things
Article about found objects in art across the exhibitions comprising the Liverpool Biennial.
Articles
All The World’s A Stage
South Asian Literature Festival
London
Review of an event at the South Asian Literature Festival in London
Museum Projects, Talks
Lost in translation?
National Institute of Design
India
Delivered a talk during a workshop between the Royal College of Art and National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India about museum design.
