About me

I grew up in Dehradun, India and studied at Welham Girls' School. After school, I moved to Delhi and I pursued my Bachelor's degree, Master's degree and Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Delhi. As an undergraduate I studied English literature and French at Lady Shri Ram College before joining Linguistics during the Masters program at the Department of Linguistics. I then moved to Amherst for my Ph.D. at the Department of Linguistics at UMass. After spending a couple of years in the very-close-to-nature campus of CURAJ, I am now back in my second home of Delhi.

In addition to Hindi-Urdu and English, which are my first languages, I also speak Multani and Punjabi as my heritage languages, both of which raise their heads in conversations with family and providing translations to clueless but curious bystanders. Recently, I have started research work on Multani, which marks the reality-ization of a long standing dream of both mine and my family's.

Other than Linguistics, I enjoy dancing-till-I-drop, writing bad poetry, and literally anything to do with plants (current projects include dahlias the size of footballs and collecting seeds from my numerous calendula and nasturtium plants).