Written works
Blog Spot:
Writings on the impacts COVID-19
Written twice, weekly for Cambridge Blockchain, a data privacy company working on contact tracing for COVID-19.
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POWER IN/AND PRESERVATION:
UNDERSTANDING LOSS IN A [POST]COLONIAL /CALCUTTA/
Masters Thesis, submitted for completion of a Masters in Design Studies in Critical Conservation at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Culture, conservation and Design:
The Critical Conservation proseminar
Two case studies:
BEAUTY IS POWER: THE SUBJECTIVITY OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION
CONSERVING COLONIAL CALCUTTA
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Intern Spotlight:
Alexandra indira sanyal
An interview about my experience at The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute.
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MDes Zine: Test Print
The zine is a product of analog methods using copy machines, printers, paper, and glue. The resulting quality highlights the tension between life on-screen and off-screen. When received, the submissions were in perfect condition; the zine-making process renders them vulnerable and disintegrative as they breakdown in each generation of reproduction. We also made some very human mistakes and apologize for any errors or changes in quality.
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WID BIB:
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON IDENTITY THEORIES
WiD Bib is an annotated bibliography and discussion of various identity theories, intended to give a sampling of ideas that construct and inform the (built) world around us.
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[Only] Half.
VOICES 2020: Story Telling from South Asian Youth in America. Off-Kendrik Bengali Theater Troupe.
Recording to come soon.
The City Revealed:
The Urban Review, Spring 2020
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Making Space from Memory:
A Critical Examination of Kolkata and Mumbai
Published in postScriptum Journal following a Two-Day Interdisciplinary International Seminar on Heritage, Culture & Identity: Re-Negotiating Spaces of Memory in a Time of Rapid Urbanization in Dhaniakhali, West Bengal.
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The [Neo]Colonial Gaze:
Tourism and Urban Identity Projection in Kolkata
Harvard University Graduate School of Design UD:ID Publication. (October, 2019).
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[Un]Conscious Cities:
A Critique of the Impacts of Preservation
Conscious Cities Anthology 2019: Science-Informed Architecture and Urbanism. Presented at the Conscious Cities Festival at Pratt University in October 2019.
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Dancers in the Spotlight:
Interviews with members of the philadelphia dance community
Completed during a year long appointment as a marketing intern with Philadelphia Dance Fitness.
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Creating Community:
A Study of the Form and Function of Islamic Community Spaces in Philadelphia.
Undergraduate Thesis, submitted for completion of a Bachelor of Arts in Growth and Structure of Cities at Bryn Mawr College.
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