About me

After an international academic formation at St Xaviers College (India), University of Kent (UK), International Hellenic University (Greece) and PhD at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), I am a postdoctoral researcher interested in the art and archaeology of Indian Buddhism from Gandhāra to Sri Lanka and gender in South Asia.

I recently completed a PhD project titled 'Gender in Gandhara art' supervised by Prof. Marco Galli. I am currently working on my project MADGA: Music and Dance In Gandhara Art at the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Paris which will be followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship within the European Commission's Marie-Curie Actions project entitled GRAVE which focuses on relic rituals in Gandhara and China supervised by Prof. Max Deeg.

The GRAVE project focuses on burial, relics, and the rhetoric, tensions and power dynamics surrounding them in their respective cultural contexts of Gandhāra (Pakistan/Afghanistan) and early Chinese Buddhism (c.1st to 5th centuries CE). It systematically delves into the visual representations of relic rituals and simultaneously engages with contemporary donative inscriptions with a broader perspective on Chinese and Indic Buddhist praxis.

In the meantime, I am also engaged in systemtically studying Buddhist stone and bronze images from ancient Tamil country. For further information, please use the contact section.

St. Xavier's College University of Kent International Hellenic University Sapienza University of Rome École française d'Extrême-Orient Cardiff University

Last updated on April 2025