Here's some random stuff about me that you won't find on my c.v.

I grew up in Mumbai, India, a city of wild extremes that I hold very dear. I left to finish the last two years of high school in the bucolic environs outside Victoria, Canada, at the fantastic Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific (part of the United World Colleges movement). Other than a summer in Rome working for the UN World Food Program, a semester abroad in lovely Chile, and of course thrice-yearly trips spent visiting family and doing research all over India, I've spent the second half of my life on the Eastern seaboard of the United States.

Having grown up in Mumbai and having played it since I can remember, I am obsessed with cricket. Some of my fondest childhood memories involve watching my dad play (always valiantly, often in vain) in Shivaji Park for his enthusiastic but rather unathletic team of portly medical practitioners. After the birth of my kids I don't really play anymore, but thankfully streaming technology has evolved fantastically to deliver live cricket from around the globe to this land of baseball (great comparison between baseball and cricket here).

As a child, playing in the mud in the monsoons was a treasured activity. As an adult, I've indulged my mud cravings as a ceramicist for the last 20 years or so. Here are links to some of my teachers' sites. As in academic papers, the standard disclaimer applies - you should in no way hold these illustrious individuals responsible for the quality of my pots! Jill Hinckley, Steve Prieto, Makoto Yabe, Trish Adams, Lucy Scanlon, Stephen Palmer and Becky Garrity.