I’m a PhD student in History at Brown University, where my research focuses on the role of film, folk, classical and other musics in creating and subverting national identity in South Asia. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Dissent, In These Times, the Harvard Political Review, as well as the Brown Journal of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal.

My compositional voice and approach to my instrument is grounded in Hindustani music, flamenco and classical guitar, and sadboi jams of all varieties. I’ve had the good fortune of learning from Vijay Iyer, esperanza spalding, Eliot Fisk, and Jérôme Mouffe. My work has been commissioned by the Harvard Office for the Arts, Collage New Music Ensemble, and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem as part of Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa’s Mutual Mentorship for Musicians, whose third cohort I was a part of in 2021. As a side-woman, I’ve performed with Ali Sethi, Paquito D’Rivera, Apoorva Mudgal, Sonny Singh, Isheeta Chakravarty, and other musicians both in the United States and India.

I graduated magna cum laude from the dual degree program between Harvard College and the New England Conservatory in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies and South Asian Studies, as well as a master’s degree in Guitar Performance.

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