Deepthi Murali is a doctoral candidate specializing in early modern art and architecture. She is currently traveling in India and Europe, on a meandering search for forgotten objects that were, in colonial India, abettors of imperial destiny and downfall. On Masala Histories, she contributes to essays on art and architecture of early modern India, contemporary art practices of South India, and opinion pieces. You can find her contributions here:

2017:

• South Asia Humanities Podcast: India at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Episode 1)

2016:

• Book Discussion Podcast - Monumental Matters: Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture
• Op-ed Essay: History of Trivandrum, One Step at a Time