I identify my arts practice as grounded in a distinctly visual culture that has integrated a formally trained visual arts practice with a rigorous twenty-year history of Indian classical dance practice in two forms, Bharatanatyam and Odissi, and contemporary dance. I was trained at the Kolkata Fine Arts Academy in my teens before I focused on Indian classical dance, but have never ceased my visual arts practice, which has now become my primary art form.

Female iconography, the dancing body, and the highly charged visual and spiritual aesthetic of Hindu roadside shrines, or pandals and temples are the primary source of inspiration for my current art installations. By employing cloth canopies, mosquito nets and ritual objects, I frame embodied concepts of Hindu culture, mythology, memory, and migration. Since 1990, my work has centred on feminist activism that protests misogynist atrocities globally.