ABOUT

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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 defines both my identity and my work — a deep-rooted interest in Indian military history, a specialisation in Defence & Veteran Affairs policy, and an abiding conviction that most of those who served and sacrificed remain unsung, their stories preserved only by the families they left behind. As Founder Trustee of the Lest We Forget India Foundation, I work to change that — chronicling lives of service and sacrifice, and standing beside the families of Armed Forces personnel.

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I co-edited In Her Defence: Ten Landmark Judgments on Women in the Armed Forces (Penguin, 2024) — an anthology of essays and commentaries on the constitutional court decisions that brought about significant change for women in uniform. I am currently researching my next book.

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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 & Public Policy, UILS, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

As a writer and editor, I have worked with India Today, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several national publications.

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ART & CREATIVE PRACTICE

Alongside my writing and policy work, I am a mixed-media artist. My visual language grows from a lifelong engagement with photography, nature, and quiet observation.

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I work from my own photographs — botanicals, birds, equines, architectural spaces, light-drenched landscapes — and transform them into layered compositions that blur the boundary between photograph and painting, through digital compositing, pigment printing, and hand-finished detail.

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My portfolio spans several interconnected bodies of work: faceless human forms that serve as vessels of emotion and inner life; compositions shaped by ink traditions and architectural rhythms that privilege space, breath, and contemplation; and recurring studies of horses, birds, and flora — symbolic presences embodying movement and pause, freedom and fragility, memory 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.