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, I was drawn early to history, memory, and the stories of those whose service and sacrifice are too easily forgotten. As Founder Trustee of the Lest We Forget India Foundation, I assist the families of Armed Forces bravehearts and, through the Foundation’s online presence, chronicle their lives, preserving their legacy and ensuring that their stories live on. 

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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 and Public Policy, UILS, Panjab University. As a writer and editor I have worked with India Today news magazine, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several national publications.

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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.

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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 and silence.

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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. Horses, birds, and flora recur 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.

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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.

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