I am a writer and an educator at Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bangalore. You can reach out to me on twitter @pooogirl, instagram or on facebook.

I am affiliated with the Centre for Education Research, Training and Development and the Centre for Public History, located at Srishti. I lead the Creative Writing Program at the Department of New Humanities and Design.

My practice is focused on the Design in Education that I implement in both Oral History and Creative Writing.  I have facilitated Oral History projects at both middle school and undergraduate collegiate level by traveling to different parts of India with my students. I have also written about these interviews and presented my observations on various academic and non-academic platforms. Through self- initiated inquiries, I have explored the interplay of history and memory, narratives, gender, race and the role of design tools in pedagogy that can help navigate the complex fabric of social difference.

With respect to writing and teaching writing, this was a natural progression from writing for pleasure to subsequent publications followed by a training in writing heuristics. I have published a series of interviews with an eminent philosopher in Kerala on the topic of Deleuzian poetics and the politics of the multitude in leading Malayalam magazines. I have translated works from Malayalam to English, presented poetry and exhibited fiction at different public venues. I believe that writing has to be an act of reflection on the contemporary politics. Yet to imagine this politics, one needs a historical understanding of societal change and transformation. For me,  the act of writing fiction or poetry is a line of clarity in a befuddled time and space, a thought with a purpose, or a crystallization of an experience.

I write frequently about my transformative experiences of becoming a mother through which I rediscovered the existence of my body.