Current Affairs
Article about the Design Museum’s designs of the year exhibition.
Article about the Design Museum’s designs of the year exhibition.
Guest speaker on BBC Radio 4’s culture programme Front Row.
Lecture about curating art and culture to further international relations.
Co-organiser of a pro-diversity flashmob featured in The Guardian newspaper.
A short essay on designer Michael Marriott’s new project with the National Trust.
Invited to write about an object in the V&A’s collection: a striking silver bracelet from pre-partition India.
Published short story titled Don’t Tell the Children in an anthology of contemporary writing.
Speaker at the India Design Forum event Empowering Through Design during Make in India Week.
Invited to take part in a panel discussion at Crime Writers’ Literature Festival in New Delhi.
Essay about lighting designer Michael Anastassiades’ first sofa design project for SCP
Commissioned to write an essay about contemporary Indian design and its relationship with craft and history for Disegno Magazine’s biannual print edition.
Managed a campaign to save the £5 million Wolsey Angels for the nation as Development Manager at the V&A.
Review of an exhibition focussed on female designers at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
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.
Reflections on the relationship between the work of a visionary Indian architect and the reality of architecture in India now.
Trustee of a cutting-edge East London gallery and ACE National Portfolio Organisation for more than four years.
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.
Contributed a series of peer reviewed encyclopedia entries about seminal design thinkers.
Review of exhibition about the work of eminent architect Charles Correa at the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Review of New York’s premier design fair, Collective 2, during NYCxDesign.
Managed the Design Fund to enable the V&A to acquire contemporary objects and enhance its design collection.
Managed a campaign to save a rare medal cabinet from export as a member of the V&A’s Development department.
Spokesperson for V&A exhibition of contemporary graphic design and illustration accompanied by a novel by Hari Kunzru.
Chair of panel discussion with emerging female designers who are melding different aesthetics to produce striking results. Organised by SAWCC.
Curated an installation by illustration collective Le Gun as the Back Room Gallery’s debut exhibition.
Invited by the Industrial Designers Society of America to contribute to a paper about universal design.
Article about the fetishised objects advertised by the fictional agency at the centre of Mad Men.
Review of exhibition by artist Asim Waqif at Nature Morte in New Delhi for a national Indian magazine.
Book review of Amitava Kumar’s novelistic biography of Patna, a breezy, thought-provoking account of one of India’s ‘B-towns’.
Article about the first ever Design History Society conference to take place outside of Europe.
Reading and panel discussion about my short fiction at the South Asian Literature Festival.
My research on urban space in contemporary India featured in the V&A History of Design Bulletin.
Review of ideas behind Petit h, a new line of Hermès exhibited in London for the first time.
Reflected on the question of Postmodernism beyond the ‘West’ in a talk at a Friday Late at the V&A.
Exhibited research about urban design in India now as part of the RCA graduate exhibition.
Long read for a literary journal of international writing about a visual artist’s photographs of the city.
Exhibition review of L’Abbraccio by Gaetano Pesce at Fred Torres Collaborations during New York Design Week.
Nominated for the story A Done Deal, which challenges taboos about female sexuality and is published in anthology Five Degrees.
Article about found objects in art across the exhibitions comprising the Liverpool Biennial.
Review of an event at the South Asian Literature Festival in London
Delivered a talk during a workshop between the Royal College of Art and National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India about museum design.