I am a researcher and writer with interests in music, religion and social histories. I recently completed a Ph.D. at Columbia University.

Before this, I've spent many years wandering in search of sounds, images, and ideas, often meeting people who were also looking for such spaces to escape too. Sometimes those encounters led to beautiful experiments of living imaginatively that inevitably revolved around sharing food and music; and travelling together and apart.

Interessi

• drinking
• live music
• backpacking
• languages
• films
• theatre
• queer
• silence
• local history
• social movements
• aesthetics
• tasting new food
• architecure
• lgbtq
• experiencing new cultures
• intimacy
• cooking together

Musica, film e libri

Books: where to begin?

Favorite fiction and poetry: Toni Morrison, Vikram Seth, Orhan Pamuk, Bruce Chatwin, Rohinton Mistry, Devanur Mahadeva, Hoshang Merchant, Audre Lorde, Amitav Ghosh, Namdeo Dhasal, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Mahashweta Devi, Rahul Sankritayana, Saadi Shirazi, Bertolt Brecht, Walt Whitman

Philosophy and Theory: Walter Benjamin, George Bataille, Hannah Arendt, B.R. Ambedkar, Jaques Ranciere, Ashish Nandy, Gopal Guru, Aniket Jaware, A.K. Ramanujan, Marcel Mauss

Una cosa incredibile che ho fatto

▪️Spent time in Chiapas, Mexico with the Zapatista Liberation Army
▪️Was a trench supervisor at an Indus Valley/Harappan archeological dig in Kutch
▪️Lived in five squats for over a year in East London (some without heating in the winter)
▪️Crossed the Wagah Border and visited Pakistan (a difficult feat for someone with Indian citizenship)

Insegna, impara, condividi

Teach: Music, I play the Sitar!

Cooking: South Indian food, Sindhi food (Sai Bhaji, Koki, Sindhi kadhi and mutton)

Painting, but your probably best off not learning from me because it's mostly doodling and other kinds of automatic drawing 😵‍💫

Learn: regional recipes, magic tricks. Someone please teach me Spanish. I have some basics 😋

Paesi che ho visitato

China, England, Hong Kong, Macao, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, United States, Wales

Paesi in cui ho vissuto

England, India, United States