About Me

I was born in India and spent my childhood following my father's diplomatic postings across continents, before starting college in the United States.​After studying filmmaking at Harvard and earning a degree in English and French Literatures, I made a documentary about Indian truck drivers, then earned a PhD in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago. My dissertation was an interdisciplinary, multimedia reworking of the Hindu epic the Mahabharata. It was the university's first born-digital dissertation, and the third of its kind in the United States. I started to teach in graduate school and have taught at universities on three continents, as well as online. I currently live in Paris, and will move to Vienna this August. Film sets, university classrooms, theatre stages, online platforms and the blank page. The settings have changed, but the pursuit hasn't. What is remembered, what is myth, what is home, and what one will do to claim it as a birthright — these I return to, again and again.