She is an Indian citizen with experience in the Indian film and television industries, having worked as an Executive Producer and Commissioning Editor of Programs for an Indian television network and as an Assistant Director to Shekhar Kapur (director of Bandit Queen and Elizabeth). Her academic work focuses on popular culture, in particular on the impact of the Indian television, film and music industries on constructions of gender, nation and culture. Her recent publications include two with R. D. Crabtree: "Gender, inter(Nation)alization, Culture: Implications of the Privatization of Television in India" in Mary Jane Collier, ed., Transforming Communication about Culture (Sage 2002) and "Media Hegemony, Social Class, and the Commercialization of Television in India," in B. L. Artz and Y. R. Kamilipour, eds., Globalization, Media Hegemony and Social Class (SUNY 2004).