ABOUT

​​I have spent over three decades working across journalism, public policy, consulting, and the arts — advising Members of Parliament, corporate enterprises, non-profits, and cultural institutions on communications strategy, content, and research.

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Born into a family with three generations of Indian Army service, that legacy drew me to history, to memory, and to those whose stories are too easily lost. As Founder Trustee of the Lest We Forget India Foundation, I work to change that, because too often it is only the families who carry these stories forward.

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I co-edited In Her Defence: Ten Landmark Judgments on Women in the Armed Forces (Penguin, 2024), an anthology on the constitutional court decisions that reshaped the place of women in uniform. I serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Forces Law Review, the first international journal of its kind, a collaboration between the National Institute of Military Justice, Washington DC, and the Centre for Constitution and Public Policy, UILS, Panjab University. As a writer and editor I have worked with India Today, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several national publications.

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​ART & CREATIVE PRACTICE

I am a mixed-media artist working with photography, digital compositing, pigment printing, and hand-finished detail.

My visual practice is rooted in memory, interior life, and the emotional presence of human forms. Across figurative and abstract work, I return to what is held, obscured, inherited, and remembered through bodies, colour, texture, pattern, silence, and trace.

 

​I also work from my own photographs of botanicals, birds, equines, architectural spaces, and light-drenched landscapes, transforming them into layered compositions that blur the line between photograph and painting, through digital compositing, pigment printing, and hand-finished detail. recurring studies of horses, birds, and flora as figures of movement and pause, freedom and fragility, stillness and time.

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ADVOCACY & PERSONAL LIFE

I am a strong advocate for child education, women's empowerment, and animal welfare, and a patron of the Foundation for Media Professionals.

I divide my time between city life and the Himalayan hills, where I farm, paint, and spend time with my family and my beloved Basset Hound.