My research began with the rivers and plateaus of Peninsular India. I studied how tectonics shaped the Deccan Volcanic Province and how dams, land-use change, and a warming climate are rewriting the sediment budgets of the largest basins. Over the past decade, this work has grown into a broader question: how do natural forces and anthropogenic pressure interact to drive landscape change? I am now extending this question into the Himalaya and the European Alps, where tectonic forcing, glacial legacy, and monsoon variability create a richer natural laboratory to test similar ideas at different scales.