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Other Published Works
Dhurrie, a book on the dhurrie weavers of UP and Rajasthan was co-authored by myself, and Meera and Shyam Ahuja. I was privileged to work with Dr Stephan Cohen of the Victoria and Albert Museum as the managing editor. And ecstatic to find Dhurrie at the Metropolitan next to a Grecian urn on a trip to NYC.
An Undefiled Heritage, co-authored with Viral Doshi, interlaces our love and fascination for Mumbai, its history, personalities, education and our alma mater.
We predated the history to 1719, and researched extensively, mining the memories of a diaspora of alumni worldwide and researching at the East India Company archives.
When we asked Salman Rushdie over email, to comment on some of the characters in Midnights Children and their parallels to his schoolmates, he replied with excitement, in 8 minutes flat. The book sold out!
15 years on. Covid. A Fort renaissance. A new building, 'somewhere in the Fort'. The allure and challenges of AI. Time for An Undefiled Heritage Edition II. Alongside my co-author Viral Doshi, we accomplished this, launched in November 2025.
MEDIA
Mint Lounge published an entire chapter of
An Undefiled Heritage
