The tomb of Nasiruddin Mahmud, eldest son of Iltutmish, is arguably the first monumental islamic tomb to have been constructed on Indian soil. Tucked away from public view, barely a hundred meters off the Mehrauli Mahipalpur Road, this monument is
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In May 2019, I presented a body of research titled “An Empirical Inquiry into the Affective Qualities of Virtual Spatial Enclosures in Head Mounted Display driven VR Systems: The Logic at Work Behind the Magic of Space” at the 7th eCAADe Regional
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My research paper titled: An Empirical Inquiry into the Perceptual Qualities of Spatial Enclosures in Head Mounted Display Driven VR Systems was published at the joint conference of eCAADe (Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in europe) and
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Do You Like It? Can machines be made to silently ‘learn’ our aesthetic preferences? Can we empirically decode our intuitive likes and dislikes? Can the game of numbers intrude upon the world of art? Can creativity, in turn, be mechanized?
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In May 2018, I conducted a heritage walk titled ‘The Hidden Tombs of the Sayyids and Lodis’, in collaboration with Sahapedia Walks and Talks. The walk was aimed at exploring and appreciating the architectural value of a few lesser known
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Rohit Raj and Chinmaya Maharana, along with myself formed the band Nomadic Three in 2016, and we had some real good fun jamming and performing over the past year. Recently, we decided to go in for our first recording session.
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Glimpses of the heritage walk titled ‘The Unsung Mosques of the Lodi Period’. The walk focused on three wonderful yet rarely visited Lodi period mosques – the Muhammad wali Masjid, the mosque of Darwesh Shah, and the Nili masjid. It
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On the 14th of Sepember 2016, we performed during the Onam celebrations at the CEPT University campus. We played three pieces: Improvisation on the Mausam and Escape theme, the Game of Thrones theme, and an improvisation on Pichle Saat Dino
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They said he was mad, That he was not fit for this world. Rarely did he speak, Little fellow, thin and meek, At whom many an abuse was hurled… They said he was dull, That he was not like
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On the 29th of October 2017, I conducted a heritage walk titled ‘Jahapanah: Exploring a Lost City’, in collaboration with Sahapedia Walks and Talks. The walk was aimed at rediscovering the lost glory of Jahapanah, one of the medieval cities
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