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Oct 7, 2026 Interview featureA quartet of new music festivals take root in Chicago this month Chicago TribuneInterviewed by Hannah Edgar for the Chicago Tribune on October 1, the CTA's 79th anniversary, about Red Line Jazz, Mandala's CTA-supported public art project bringing live music and neighborhood stories to stations along the Red Line.
July 7, 2026Article, AuthorFaith As Cartography: Land, obligation, and the moral geography of the commonsIcarus Complex MagazineA contributed article tracing how devras, village shrines in southern Rajasthan's Aravalli hills, have protected common land where formal law and cartography failed. Drawing on Seva Mandir's restoration work, it shows faith holding the landscape together against mining and encroachment.
June 2, 2026Radio InterviewA new program brings jazz to CTA Red Line stops all summerWBEZ NewsInterviewed by Ari Mejia for WBEZ News coverage of the Red Line Jazz Project's launch on May 21, 2026, which brings live jazz to CTA Red Line stations across Chicago in line with the CTA's goals for equitable transit-oriented development.
Sept 19, 2025Guest LectureAesthics of Evidence: Visualizing Impacts of Extreme HeatFaculty of Design,
CEPT University, IndiaThe form we give to data, from charts to tapestries, shapes who can understand the impacts of extreme heat and who is moved to act on them. Drawing on projects from Ahmedabad to Paris, this talk explores how design can turn heat data and lived experience into evidence the public can see, feel, and act on.
May 9, 2026Report feature, Exhibition Tour Hum Sab Ek: SEWA’s Response to the Pandemic | Cultural Highlight Johns Hopkins Gupta-Klinsky India InstituteFeatured in the India Center's conference report, this chapter covers the Hum Sab Ek exhibition, shown at the Johns Hopkins Inaugural India Conference at the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation. The exhibit combined storytelling, data, and artifacts from SEWA's fieldwork to ground policy discussions in first-hand accounts of grassroots resilience.
January 30, 2025Studio
Report Designer & ContributerDo No Harm: Dilemmas in Planning for Health Harvard Graduate School of Design, Department of Urban Design and PlanningDesigned the report for Do No Harm: Dilemmas in Planning for Health, a Fall 2024 project-based course led by Professor Magda Maaoui. In collaboration with Paris-based Roofscapes, students explored adapting Parisian zinc roofs to heat and evolving affordable housing needs, speculating on implementation for Haussmannian roofs and other housing typologies in Paris.
March 18, 2025Featured ArticleEmpowering Women in the Informal Economy: Insights from SEWA's Community-Driven Approach in India Harvard Center for International Development (CID)Featured as co-curator of the Hum Sab Ek exhibition in this CID Voices Blog piece on SEWA's community-driven approach to empowering women in India's informal economy, alongside curator Dr. Satchit Balsari and the exhibition's broader team.
March 31, 2025Self produced exhibition catalog and construction document
Hum Sab Ek Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at HarvardDesigned the report for Do No Harm: Dilemmas in Planning for Health, a Fall 2024 project-based course led by Professor Magda Maaoui. In collaboration with Paris-based Roofscapes, students explored adapting Parisian zinc roofs to heat and evolving affordable housing needs, speculating on implementation for Haussmannian roofs and other housing typologies in Paris.
May 29, 2025Featured Exhibition
Hum Sab Ek at The International Labour Organisation, Geneva Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at HarvardDesigned the report for Do No Harm: Dilemmas in Planning for Health, a Fall 2024 project-based course led by Professor Magda Maaoui. In collaboration with Paris-based Roofscapes, students explored adapting Parisian zinc roofs to heat and evolving affordable housing needs, speculating on implementation for Haussmannian roofs and other housing typologies in Paris.
May 31, 2024Featured Interview, Newspaper Article
Strength in Numbers Mid-Day NewspaperCovered the Harvard launch of Hum Sab Ek, an exhibition built from 1,000 household surveys and 30 hours of oral histories on how SEWA members navigated the pandemic.
May 22, 2024Featured Interview, Newspaper Article
‘Tell the cities about us … and tell our neighbors about what we do’The Harvard GazetteFeatured Hum Sab Ek, highlighting an installation of earthenware gullaks, traditional savings vessels, that I designed to represent SEWA’s legal fight for construction workers’ unpaid welfare benefits.
November 3, 2023Catalogue , Featured project
BIENNALE ARTE 2023 | Foreigners Everywhere Biennale de Arte 2023Catalogue of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, La Biennale di Venezia, 2023. Features The BLACK City Astrolabe.
September, 2022Author, Newspaper Article
A 21st Century General to a 15th Century FortThe Daily GuardianA biographical profile of Karni Singh Jasol and his stewardship of a 15th-century fort, written from a personal and family perspective.
March 31, 2021Author,
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LANDSCAPE AND FAITH
Shrines of Rural Rajasthan Landscape JournalAn early study of pastoral shrines and sacred landscapes in rural Rajasthan, and the foundation for my later essay “Faith As Cartography.”