BOOKS
Climate Change and the Creative Economy in India: Disadvantaged, Disturbed and Dislocated Indian Weavers
Routledge (Taylor & Francis Publishing)
Mar 2025
BOOK CHAPTERS
Stories of Immigrant Labor in Global Textile and Clothing Production edited by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe
Chapter ‘The Evolution of an Identity: Tracing the Trajectory of Sindhi Ajrak Across Borders’
Bloomsbury Publishing
Feb 2024
ARTICLES
News – The Textile Society, Spring 2025, no. 86 (First Prize Winner of the Brenda M King Prize for Critical Writing in Textiles 2024)
Apr 2025
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS: PAPER PRESENTATIONS
‘Border Control’ | Design History Society Conference 2024, UCA Canterbury
Reading the Sari Border: Along and Against the Grain
04-07 Sept 2024
‘Fashion: Tissue, Textile, Toile’ | CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, 2024, Chicago
The Sari-Body: Exploring Interrelationships with the Body, Landscape and Beyond
16-18 Feb 2024
‘Textiles of Punjab’ Seminar | Textile and Clothing Research Centre (TCRC), Chandigarh
Mapping Missionary Influence of Domestic Crafts in Undivided Punjab
06 Aug 2022
Responsible Fashion Series | University of Antwerp, Belgium
Paper Presentation – The modern-day haat: Role of digital technology in shaping artisan-customer dynamics during the pandemic
15 Oct 2021
Futuring Craft | Indian Ocean Craft Triennial at Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Paper Presentation – The Domestic Craft and the Artefact: Discovering Provenance, Exploring Interrelationships
18 Sept 2021
Design Culture (s) | Cumulus Roma 2021 at Sapienza University, Rome
Paper Presentation – Shifted Paradigms in Sustainable Fashion Design Education: Studying Implications & Effectiveness of Pedagogical Methods Adopted in a Pandemic Setting
9 June 2021
IFFTI 2020 | Kent State University, United States (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
Paper published in proceedings – ‘Untapped’: Exploring Craft Potential of Urban Women Through Technology Intervention
Aug 2020
Fashion Colloquia 2020 | Arch College of Design and Business, India
Paper published in proceedings – Tracing The Everyday: The Rubric of Slow Fashion
Jan 2020
International Conference on Sustainability Education (ICSE) at Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
Paper Presentation – Teacher’s training for sustainable development in the context of design education
10 Sept 2019
LeNS World Distributed Conference | Srishti Institute of Technology, India
Paper Presentation – Zero Waste: Exploring Alternatives Through Folding
3-5 April 2019
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS: RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
‘Postcolonial Hauntologies: Art in the Presence – Absence of the Past’ | Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
The Spectre of Crochet: A Woman’s Lived Experience
7 Mar 2025
‘ G/local Culture, Rights, Development, Agency, Technologies‘ | World Making Words AHRC Research Network, Kerala University, India
Craft and Home-making: Viewing Indian Periodicals Within the Creation of a ‘New Domesticity’
26 Nov 2024
‘Power and Representation’ | Dress and Textile Specialists (DATS) Conference 2024, V&A Dundee
The Subdued Power of Indian Crochet
10-11 Oct 2024
The Scholar’s Voice | Techne Summer Congress 2024, University of Roehampton, London
An Epistemologically Disobedient Researcher: Reclaiming the Personal in Academic Writing
16-17 July 2024
“Patchwork & Authorship” The Art of Fiction Workshop 1 | University of Exeter, UK
‘Learning Needlecraft Skills: Collaborative Making in Victorian India
3 May 2024
Dressed Conference 2023: The Complex Dimension of Clothing in Society (Online)
The Indian Blouse: Charting Influences and Contradictions
7-9 Nov 2023
Home/ Making Symposium | Concordia University, Montreal
‘Meet the Makers’ Roundtable with Fiona Harrington and Rosa Borrás
11 May 2023
Annual New Research in Dress History Conference | The Association of Dress Historians (ADH), Manchester Metropolitan University
A refuge for the displaced: Post-partition worlds of sewing
21 April 2023
Personal Writing and Textual Practices in the British Empire, C19th-20th | University of Leicester
How did I learn this? Constructing Needlecraft Cultures in Colonial India, c.1850-1947
14 April 2023
Art History Conference – Participatory Needlework as Tangible and Intangible Heritage | UCL, London
Indian Women, Wartime Knitting and Participatory Spaces of Production
13 April 2023
Mending and Making Conference | Endangered Material Knowlege Program and British Museum
Patched Stories on Indian Textiles
25 Jan 2023
Material Matters Conference | Fort Ticonderoga
The Sepoy and His Lota
21 Jan 2023
Memory in a Digital Age Conference | IIT Madras. Chennai
Does the domestic demand to be archived? Explorations in memory of confined spaces and making
24 Aug 2022
Knitting History Forum Conference 2021: Heads, Hands & Feet
From jorab (socks) to dastana (gloves): Tracing provenance of Hand-knitting in the Indian Subcontinent
13 Nov 2021
Curation and Conservation: Dress and Textiles in Museums | Association of Dress Historians, Turin, Italy
Display of Indian Textiles: How Can a Sensorial Experience be Created for Better Viewer Engagement and Contextual Awareness
22 Oct 2021
TILT Conference | Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK
Research Presentation – A Response to Teaching through a Pandemic: Building Systems to Support Learning Communities in Design Education Environments
14 Sept 2021
Fashion and Climate Change Symposium | Manchester Fashion Institute (MFI), UK
Research Presentation – Reversing fashion systems: Studying how overproduction is responsible for overconsumption in the industry
10 Sept 2021
Pivot 2021 Virtual Conference, Dismantling Reassembling: Tools for alternative futures | OCAD University, Toronto
Paper Presentation – Recording Circular Loops of Use and Re-Use of Clothing and Textiles adopted by Indigenous Communities in India
23 July 2021
Patterns of Struggle and Solidarity Conference | Postcolonial Studies Center, Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK
Research Presentation – Imagery as a Tool for Cultural Activism: Analysing and Discussing Narratives around Sari, an Indian drape
18 June 2021
International Upcycling Symposium 2020 | Research and Practice, De Montfort University, UK
Research Presentation – Scaling up Upcycling: Studying challenges and suggesting solutions for its integration in the existing supply chain
4 Sept 2020
GRANTS & AWARDS
Brenda M King Prize for Critical Writing in Textiles – First-Prize Winner
2024
TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Crochet Workshop, Goa
Crochet Jewellery-making workshop for Artisanal upskilling
19-21 Sept 2022
Digital Multilogue at American University of Paris, France
Workshop – Between Active and Experiential
1 Oct 2021
University of Mauritius, Department of Engineering
Research Presentation – Reversing fashion systems
22 Sep 2021
AYA Workshop | DD Architects
Talk – Colors from Nature
1 June 2021
Coventry University Virtual World Tour 2021
Embroidered Textiles as an Expression of Cultural Identity
Presentation co-presented with Saumya Pande & Gunjan Arora (IIAD, India)
26 April 2021
Dhaaga X Okhai
Crochet Workshop for Artisan Training
Sept 2020
Five Million Incidents Project
Workshop – Zero Waste Fashion Design
Goethe Institute/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India
21 Sept 2019
CONSULTANCY PROJECTS
USTTAD Crochet of Goa (Ministry of Textiles X NID)
Ethnographic fieldwork, research and documentation on crochet in Goa
June-Dec 2022
LYFTIME
Sustainability Research Consultant – Protocol and Framework Development
May-June 2022
Make a Mark – Community Couture X British Council
Zero Waste Design and Construction
Jan-Mar 2022
TYT Partners
Logo Design & Development for Digital & Print
Feb-Mar 2020
Chitranee Khanna
Capsule Collection Design, Development & Production – Range of 75 garments
Apr-Oct 2018
FabIndia
Design & Development for a few pieces, co-working with Saumya Pande
Apr-May 2017
Swarnamrit
Brochure Design & Development
Jan-Mar 2016
ParkZap
User Interface Design for App Development
July-Aug 2015
SHOWCASE
Home/ Making Symposium 2023 | Concordia University, Montreal
Creative Research Showcase titled ‘Crochet; Domesticated’
May 2023
Fashion Colloquia 2020 | Arch College of Design and Business, India
Zero Waste Garment Design
Jan 2020
Redress Alumni Showcase | Centerstage, Hong Kong
Fold Zero – A Zero Waste Collection
4-8 Sept 2019
Local Projects Challenge | Columbia University’s Digital Gallery, UN Habitat Urban Thinkers Campus
Project Untapped
Nov 2019
NON-ACADEMIC WRITING
a place called home
Gulmohur Quarterly Issue 01
March 2021
A Circular Yarn
Fashion Revolution Fanzine issue 004 Fashion Craft Revolution
April 2019
Being Katharine Hepburn
Fashion Revolution Blog
April 2019
Articles on Medium
FEATURED
Between Pleats – Najrin Islam (Oct 2020)
Goeth Institut – Five Million Incidents Project (2019)
Redress Design Award annual magazine (2019)
Redress Design Award annual magazine (2018)
SHORTLISTED
Dundeed Competition 2019 Top 5 – Project Untapped
Design Principles & Practices 2020 – Emerging Scholar Award
Redress Design Award Semi-Finalist 2019
DLF Emporio Awards Finalist 2018-19
Redress Design Award Semi-Finalist 2018
Live Protege Finalist 2015
