Papers / Essays

[Specks of Light] <Pdf>
Musings on Tradition, Modernity and Design Education
DETM Conference, NID Ahmedabad, 2004

[Walking With Your Own Lamp] <Pdf>
Package and Design Magazine, China, 2005

[A Need For Restraint] <Pdf>
Working with indigenous artists
Seminar on ‘Illustrations in Children's Books'Ekalvya, SRTT 2006

[The Invisible Shades of Disorder] <Pdf>
A critique of design education
7th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Izmir, 2007

[The Lotus and the Robot] <Pdf>
Thoughts on Integral Education
Journal of Design, 2007

[Tribal, Traditional and Contemporary Art Practices in India: Contextuality and Transcendence] <Pdf>
Towards an understanding of art practices
International Conference on 100 Years of Creativity: Fine Arts in Egypt, Cairo, 2008

[Art Education in India in the 21st Century] <Pdf>
Towards an understanding of art education, 2013

[Negotiating the Contested Space of Collaborative Art Practices] <Pdf>
An account of a collaborative effort with traditional artists, 2015

[The Handcrafted in the Age of Artificial Intelligence] <Pdf>
Reflections on pottery and weaving, 2018

[Marching Against Currents] <Pdf>
The Hand-crafted in the Age of Artifical Intelligence, 2019

[The Potter's Paradox] <Pdf>
A paradox that lies in the loss of ancestral knowledge while witnessing the robust growth of non-traditional practice, 2023