Scholarship

Archiving Absence: Instagram and the Diasporic Genius Loci of the Sindhi Hindu Community, RAIS Journal of Social Sciences (published). https://journal.rais.education/index.php/raiss/article/view/288

Tripartite Frameworks and Genius Loci: A Visual Method for Reading Sacred Urbanism in Flux, Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on The Image, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Common Ground Research Networks, 2025 (published)

Sacred Urbanism in Flux: Mapping Varanasi between Myth, Memory, and Modernity, in Cities’ Memory: Heritage, Identity, and Urban Regeneration, eds. Tatjana Pivac and Alessio Cardaci. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer Nature Switzerland (in press)

Cartographies of Contestation: Kashi’s Visual Translations in Ritual and Empire, Colnaghi Press Journal (accepted, in press)

Institutionalising Absence in the Age of Digital Art History: Archives, Algorithms, and the Politics of Memory, in Inside Out: Art History and Its Institutions, ed. Dr. Elizabeth Mansfield. Routledge (forthcoming 2027)

Flowing Through Time: The Ganga as a Ritual Medium of Temporal Multiplicity in Haridwar, Prayagraj, and Varanasi, in Asian Temporalities: Chronologies, Seasons, Tenses, eds. Federica Cidale, Petr Janda, and Monika Verma. Olomouc Asian Studies, Vol. 5. Palacký University Olomouc (forthcoming 2026)

Machine Spirits and Archival Absences: AI, Genius Loci, and the Future of Curating Memory and Place, Journal of Curatorial Studies 15.2, special issue (under review)

Curating the Sacred: Polyvocal Translation and the Three-Sphere Framework in Museum Practice (under review at Museum Worlds)

Beyond Stone: Mijaaz, Urban Temperament, and the Fractal Constitution of Genius Loci (under review)

Genius Loci Without Monument: Al Quoz, Industrial Friction, and the Manufactured Loci of Gulf Urbanism (under review)

After Architecture: Hakim Alakel and the Post-Material Genius Loci (under review)

Beyond Space and Soil: Migratory Genius Loci, Diaspora, and the Ethics of Curatorial Practice (under review)

Avimuktakshetra and Its Discontents: Recursive Genius Loci, Sacred Exemption, and the Unfinished Project of the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor (under review)

Centripetal Force and Spatial Transposition: Towards a Planning Framework for Sacred Urbanism (under review)

Processual Fidelity: The Religious–Academic–Lived (R/A/L) Diagnostic Framework for Sacred Cities in Transformation (under review)

Re-writing the Sacred City: Graffiti, Ritual Presence, and Urban Identity in Varanasi (under review)

AI, Eurocentrism, and Art Historical Research: Challenges of Bias and Hallucination in the Digital Humanities (under review)

Sacred Absences and Algorithmic Gazes: Towards a Critical Ethics of Machine Curatorship, Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, April 2026

Genius Loci as Metier: How Sacred Urbanism Produces its Own Metier in Varanasi, Architekturtheoretisches Kolloquium, Werner Oechslin Library Foundation, Mendrisio, April 2026

Specters of the Ghats: Ritual and Imagined Architectures in Varanasi, ENSA Paris-Val de Seine & ENSA Paris-Malaquais PSL, Spectres de l’architecture, May 2026

The Algorithm’s City: Dubai, Varanasi, and the Mediascape That Precedes the Urban, CriticalProductive Journal No. 05, MIT Press (submitted June 2026)

Living Scripture: The Kashi-khanda as Indigenous Spatial Epistemology and the Epistemicide of Varanasi’s Ghats, Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Arts and Architecture, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, September 2026 (accepted)

Varanasi and the Sacred City in Three Tiers: Pilgrimage, Governance, and Cosmology, Heritage(s) 2026, Istanbul, September 2026

Re-writing the Sacred City: Graffiti, Ritual Presence, and Urban Identity in Varanasi, Urban Creativity Conference, Lisbon, July 2026 (accepted)

Towards a Framework for Social Sustainability in Art and Luxury, Art, Luxury, and Sustainability: Markets in Transition, Sotheby’s Institute of Art

AI, Eurocentrism, and Art Historical Research: Challenges of Bias and Hallucination in Digital Humanities, EVA 2026 Conference, Berlin (video contribution)

Rhizomatic Pedagogies: Florence, Varanasi, and the Complexities of Architectural Identity, Pedagogy 2025: Emerging Theories, Teaching & Technologies

Graduated with Distinction with High Distinction in Curation and Dissertation

Recipient of three research grants, London Art History Society

Dissertation : Sacred Spaces in Flux: Negotiating Religion, History, and Urban Dynamics in Varanasi, India

Developed academic exhibition proposal: Threads of Transcendence – Art, Ritual and Spirituality, pitched to Louvre Abu Dhabi

Winner of three design competitions; praised for concept-driven jury presentations

Dissertation: Space, Symbol, Strategy in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Patronage as a Reconstructive Tool Post-Pandemic