Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067. (Title: Looking for Performance: Trance and related Body movements in rituals of Thai Pusam and Panguni Pongal festivals.)

M.PHIL. in Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - 110067. (Title: Kavadi Attam: Ritual Practice and Danced Identity)

M.A in Arts and Aesthetics, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067.

B.A in Sociology, P.S.G. College of Arts and Science, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu – 641014.

2023- at present - Chairperson for the Research and Documentation chapter of an international Dance organization, the World Dance Alliance, Asia Pacific 

Jan-2022-Dec 2023 - Executive committee member, Dance Alliance – India                                                                          

2020 - Conference coordinator (Indian team) in preparing and organizing an International Conference “Navigating Location, Negotiating Identity”, The Taiwan dance festival, Held at 26-27 December 2020, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Organized by  World Dance Alliance- Asia Pacific – Taiwan

2019 - Conference coordinator (Indian team) in preparing and organizing An International Conference the Ocean dance festival by World Dance Alliance- Asia Pacific – Bangladesh

2019-2022 - Co-Chair for the Research and Documentation chapter Of an international Dance organization, the World Dance Alliance, Asia Pacific

16-06-2016 to 31-10-2021 - Assistant Professor at the Department of Performing Arts in Presidency University, Kolkata-700073

2016 - Conference coordinator (Indian team) in preparing and organizing An International Conference, World Dance Alliance- Asia Pacific – Seoul, South Korea

2016 to 2017 - Cultural Convener for the Bicentenary celebration of Presidency University Kolkata, West Bengal, hence organized big budgeted programs of the university

2014 - 2016 - A PhD researcher in the project named “Gendered Citizenship” by UKERI-UGC, A collaborative project with University of Warwick, U.K and Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

2015 - Research coordinator in Sahapedia worked on the content and managed them in various domains,

2009 - Assistant facilitator, in a Choreo-lab for the International conference Conducted by the World Dance Alliance – Asia Pacific, held at I.I.C, New Delhi.

Some of my research interviews for Sahapedia are 

2015 - The fieldwork and research on architecture, epigraphy of Kudumiyan malai temple in Pudukottai district, Tamilnadu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqsj2bNWlzE

2015 - The fieldwork and research on kalamkari paintings in Shrikalahasti temple in Andhra Pradesh, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drRR3e89s0Y,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__DcNC5CjQU

2015 - The fieldwork and research on sari weaving patterns of Chiralain Andhra Pradesh, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCsRFKV_8dA

2012 to 2013 - Quality Controller (free-lance) at the History channel for Tamil language for Clearing up episodes of various themes from the channel

• Ritual dance forms and movement analysis
• Devadasi repertoire, Sadir dance forms
• Trance and trance like movement practices
• Ethnic ritual practices
• Ethnic dance forms.

2015 - Kudumiyan malai, Pudukottai district, Tamil Nadu, The fieldwork and research on the history, architecture, epigraphy of Kudumiyan malai temple in Pudukottai district, Tamil Nadu. 

2015 - Shrikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh, The fieldwork and research on kalamkari paintings of Shrikalahasti temple in Andhra Pradesh 

2015 - Chirala, Andhra Pradesh, The fieldwork and research on sari weaving patterns of Chirala in Andhra Pradesh 

2013-14 - Regular research with “Sadir” Dancer Muthukannammal of Viralimalai A continuous fieldwork to a village named Viralimalai in the district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu in search of the Sadir dance and interviewed a Sadir dancer on December 2013 and again on September 2014 and December 2014 with extensive documentation on Sadir dance form 

2013 - Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, Fieldwork in the town named Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, in order to understand the performances of the Deities and the politics involved in the Kullu Dushera. 

2013 - Virudhunager, Tamil Nadu, Fieldwork in a town named Virudhunager, Tamil Nadu, during their annual Panguni Pongal festival in order to understand the relation of the body and rituals performed including the body piercing, fire pot carrying and the trance dance movements. 

2013 - Palani, Tamil Nadu, Field work in a town named Palani, Tamil Nadu during the annual festival named „Thai Pusam‟ in order to understand the movement forms and techniques of the Kavadi Attam and the Trance movement forms 

2012 - Kullu, Himachal Pradesh Fieldwork in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, in, in order to understand the performances of the Deities and the politics involved in the Kullu Dushera. 

2011 - Palani, Tamil Nadu, Fieldwork in a town named Palani, Tamil Nadu during the annual festival named „Thai Pusam‟ in order to understand the movement forms and techniques of the Kavadi Attam and the Trance movement forms. 

2010 - Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, Fieldwork in the Jaisalmer, Rajasthan in in order to understand the Kalbelia dance performances and the whole tourism involved as a constructed performance.

2008 - Kutch, Gujarat, Fieldwork in the remote areas of Kutch, Gujarat, in order to study the hand prints clothes and the painting, along the Painters who have received awards for their work

2012 - “Kavadiattam: Local and Global” Pg. no 170, in the book named Dancing Mosaic, Issues on Dance Hybridity Edited by Mohd Anis Md Nor, Cultural center university of Malaya, National Department for Culture and Arts, Ministry of Information, Communication and culture, Malaysia. ISBN 978-967-0380-17-9  

2013 - “KavadiAttam‟ a Dance Ritual Practiced as a Community Performance” article published in the JOURNAL OF EMERGING DANCE SCHOLARSHIP- 2013 Published by World Dance Alliance (https://www.jedsonline.in/uploads/topics/16655769105165.pdf) ISSN 2309-267X  

2015 - “Trance as a State, with pain to stimulate and Dance to Contemplate” Article published in the JOURNAL OF EMERGING DANCE SCHOLARSHIP- 2015 Published by World Dance Alliance (https://www.jedsonline.in/uploads/topics/16655705655123.pdf) ISSN 2309-267X

2017 - “Forbidden Dance” an article in the Book Contemporary Indian Theatre, Theatricality and artistic crossovers (2017) edited by Ravi Chaturvedi and Tapati Gupta, published by Prem rawat for Rawat Publications, Jawahar Nagar, Jaipur 302004 (Rajasthan India) ISBN 978-813160856-2  

2021 - “ICT in Understanding Dance studies”, an article in the Book ICT in Education (2020), edited by Sachin Kr. Tiwary & Om Prakash, Published by K.R. Publishers & Distributers, Varnasi and Delhi, India ISBN: 978-93-88179-65-2  

2023 - “From Oblivion to Acceptance: Sadir dancer Muthukannamal's presence as a challenge to representations” an article is accepted to be published in a book named Performance Making and the Archive, Published by Routledge Publications, ISBN: 9780367195601

2017 - Choreographed and directed a Dance piece a production named Amal Hayatta Kalmak with the theme of Refugees from Mass violence and War 

2016 - Choreographed and directed a Dance piece a Dance Program for the NAAC visit to the university 

2008 - Dancer in the cultural exchange program represented India one among twenty dancers with a theme called „Lotus path‟ in Osaka, Japan It is a part of the cultural exchange program offered from The Osaka in the World Committee, Japan, 

2020 - “Navigating Location, Negotiating Identity”, the Taiwan dance festival,Presented a paper in the topic “Viralimalai Padukalam: the performative ritual procession of remembering the war heroes as a part of Tamil folk Mythology” via Online mode in an International Conference, “Navigating Location, Negotiating Identity”, the Taiwan dance festival, held at 26-27 December 2020, Kaohsiung, Taiwan organized by World Dance Alliance- Asia Pacific – Taiwan, 

2019 - The Ocean Dance festival, Bangladesh Presented a paper in the topic “Moadi Yeduthu” the lost dance drama of the sadir tradition of Viralimalai.”  in an International Conference, organised by World Dance Alliance - Asia Pacific, to be held at Mermaid resorts, Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, from 22nd to 25th November 2019.

2019 - International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), World Conference, Bangkok, Thailand Presented a paper in the topic, the competitory choreography, the educing Dancing style from the dance reality shows of Tamil Nadu, India in an International Conference, 45th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), World Conference to be held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, from 11–17 July 2019,

2018 - The Dance congress, Adelaide, Australia Presented a paper in the topic, Understanding corporeality of the tralatitious pedagogy of the prohibited temple dance form Sadir, a case study of a living Devadasi Guru Muthukannammal. In an International conference, the Dance congress held at Panpapanpalaya, Adelaide, Australia, conducted by World Dance alliance and the Dance and Children International,

2018 - Performance Making and the Archive, IIT, Bombay, India Presented a paper, in the topic From Oblivion to Acceptance: Sadir dancer Muthukannamal's presence as a challenge to representations in a national Conference, Performance Making and the Archive held from 16th and 17th March at IIT, Bombay, India.

2017 - The International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), Ireland, U.K.  Presented a paper, in the topic “Melamum‟ – “Arulum‟: Understanding Connections Between the Music of the Drums and the Moving Bodies of Devotees in Trance'” in an International Conference, the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), held at Ireland, U.K.

2016 - World Dance Alliance-Asia Pacific, Seoul, South Korea, Presented an Academic paper in the topic The Mask and the Trance in Prahalada charitramu of the Bhagavata Mela Natakam in Melattur in the World Dance Alliance-Asia Pacific, Seoul, South Korea.

2016 - Gendered Citizenship: manifestations and Performances, Warwick University, London, U. K Presented an Academic paper in the topic Remembering Sadir: reclaiming presence in the Gendered Citizenship:  manifestations and Performances-2016 in Warwick University, London, U. K.

2015 - The International Federation of Theatre and Research, World Congress, Hyderabad, India Presented an Academic paper in the International Federation of Theatre and Research-2015, World Congress in Hyderabad, India in the topic Oyilattam: performing the community identity

2015 - The International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), held at Astana, Kazakhstan, Selected for a World Conference with my paper “Connecting the body to the prop: understanding movements in the Ritual of Kavadi Attam.” of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), held at Astana, Kazakhstan, From, has accepted for a presentation during the conference.

2015 - Performative Communication Culture and Politics in South Asia, New Delhi, India Presented an Academic paper in a title “The Myth, the prop, the dance- connecting the tradition through body” in a  Conference Performative Communication Culture and Politics in South Asia, an International Seminar co-organized  by Department of Sociology, South Asian University Centre for Culture Media & Governance, Jamia Milia Islamia  & In association with Indian Council of Social Science Research in Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi

2014 - International Federation of Theatre & Research, World Congress, Warwick University, Coventry, U. K. Presented an Academic paper in the topic The Body in/as Ritual or Performance or both? In the International Federation of Theatre and Research, World Congress in Warwick University, Coventry, U. K.

2014 - The World Dance Alliance-, Angers, France Presented an Academic paper France in the topic “the Trance is a state, with the pain to stimulate and the dance to contemplate” in the World Dance Alliance-, Angers, France 

2014 - The International Union of Anthropology and Ethnology, Chiba city, Japan Presented an Academic Paper in the topic “Performance as mediation” an impeccant dancer between the Belief and The Community in the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnology Conference-, Chiba city, Japan

2014 - International society for Theatre Research, Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India Presented a paper in the topic “Forbidden dance: A Dancers narrative of her Life” the International society for Theatre Research, Centre for media and Cultural studies, Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangard, Rajasthan

2011 - The World Dance Alliance Conference- Asia Pacific, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia Presented a Paper in the Topic Kavadiattam local and Global at the World Dance Alliance Conference- Asia Pacific Conference in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

2010 - Warwick Conference, JNU, New Delhi, India Presented a collaborated paper, one among a Group of five people on a Topic as “Tourism as a Performance” in the Warwick Conference in School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

2012- 2014 - Senior Research Fellow, Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship

NET 2013 - Junior Research Fellowship of University Grants Commission (Performing Arts -Dance)

2009- 2012 - Junior Research Fellow of Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship

2008 - Awarded Ford Merit Scholarship by the Ford Foundation, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University.