She was educated in the UK. She lived in Delhi between 1998 and 2008 and has written Delhi: A Thousand Years of Building (2005), Agra: The Architectural Heritage (2008), Fatehpur Sikri: Revisting Akbar’s Masterpiece (2014), all published by Roli Books, New Delhi, and Lahore: The Architectural Heritage (2014), published by Ferozsons, Lahore.