Projects

Selected Special Lectures and other opportunities

1. Invited talk on ‘Social enterprises in South India’, to Woxsen University (Hyderabad) Apparel Design students (2023)

2. Invited talk on ‘Impact of AI in ASEEAN Journalism’ in an event organised by reputed newspapers of Vietnam for Revolutionary Press day of Vietnam (2023).

3. Talk on ‘Social internships for undergraduate students’ delivered to Woxsen University, Hyderabad students (2023)

4. Talk on ‘Higher Education and Creativity in South East Asia’, in Learning and Teaching Festival in RMIT, Vietnam (2022)

5. Invited talk titled, ‘Fashion entrepreneurial ventures, who wins and who loses?’ organised by South Asian Studies Department, NUS (2022)

6. Lecture on, ‘Women Education in Tamil Nadu’ on the Birth Anniversary of Savitri Bai Phule organized by Ambedkarite Students Association, for students at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (2017)

7. Lecture on, ‘Design thinking within Fashion Designing’ for undergrad Fashion Designing students of Lady Doak College, Madurai (2015)

1. ‘Understanding Collaboration for brand Image building: A study analysis of three Indian sustainable fashion social enterprises’, International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University (2024)

2. ‘What Indian academia thinks about creative industry?’, a paper presentation in Inter-Asia Culture Studies conference in Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad (2023)

3. ‘Whose’ power enables contemporary craft production and consumption? An investigation into the craft-based businesses in Tamil Nadu, India’, at Virtual Conference by Cultural Studies Association, Chicago (2020)

4.‘Understanding the growing ‘Handicraft promotion’ of a popular Indian fashion design education institution’, at Critical Fashion Studies Conference, University of Melbourne organised by Inter Asia Culture Studies Society (2020)

5. ‘Commercializing Cultures – A look into the Lifestyle brands of India’, at Silliman University, Dumaguete, Philippines organized by Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (2019)

6.‘Understanding the embodied ideologies within the notion of ‘menstruation’- A look into the discussions around Sabarimala temple entry issue’, at Department of South Asian Studies, NUS, Singapore (2019)

1.  Was selected one of the top 3 design students of the batch (2011-15) for the Graduation Fashion Show of National Institute of Fashion Technology and eventually won the Most Innovative and Creative Designer Award (2015)

2. Worked with Ability foundation, Chennai to design garments for people with disabilities (2015)

3. My avantgarde garment collection was chosen to be used for the 2016 calendar photoshoot

Academic

1.  Adhvaidha Kalidasan, ‘The Hadiya Case: Human Rights Violations and State Islamophobic propaganda in India’ for a Special Issue: “Law as/and Culture: Reconfiguring Human Rights and Justice” in IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 6 (SI), 2021

Non-Academic

1.  Articles exploring the reasons behind the sudden influx of Indian tourists in Vietnam, marketing strategies of some Vietnamese airline companies and the opportunities this tourist influx creates for Vietnamese entrepreneurs was published in the official magazines of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Vietnamese Private Entrepreneurs Association (2025).

2. Comic strip titled ‘Support for articulating issues/trauma around sexual misconduct’ and a comic strip on the Shaheen Bagh women’s led movement in an anthology titled ‘Friendship by South Asian Women and Gender Queer Folx’, 2022

1. I always believe student express themselves the best when a lecturer meets them in person through 1-1 consultations. I dedicate weekly 6 to 10 hours of consultations with students apart from lecture hours and got good feedback from students. This is one of the 3 teaching methods that explained in my teaching awards application that got me RMIT’s teaching award for 2024.

2. Conducted 8 hours photo workshop with University of Architecture students (2023)

3. Conducted a one-day workshop on the theme ‘Creative Thinking’ for children of 6th to 8th grade in Kendriya Vidyalaya CSIR Campus, Chennai (2015)

4. Conducted a three-day workshop on the theme ‘Creative Thinking and Design development’ for visually challenged children from St. Joseph, Blind School, Madurai. This was a part of my final design project (2015)