Teaching

Courses Taught

Peace, Justice, Human Rights | Winter 2026.

GPSJ Program, McMaster University, Hamilton.

Class size- 150 students.

The course introduces first-year undergraduate students to core concepts in Human Rights and Peace Studies.

Peace, Justice, Popular Culture | Winter 2026.

GPSJ Program, McMaster University, Hamilton.

Class size- 50 students.

The course introduces and teaches the application of core concepts in Peace and Justice Studies to contemporary Popular culture, including films, rap songs, and online movements such as #metoo and #blacklivesmatter.

Mystery and Suspense Writing | 2025

The School of Continuing Studies, The University of Toronto.

In a studio-style setting with ten students in class, this creative writing seminar offered tools to emerging writers to undertake their first mystery writing projects.

Parsi Theatre and Performing Arts | 2025

Parzor-Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai

Part of the certificate program on Parsi Zoroastrian Culture and Heritage Studies.

This course delves into the history of Parsi Theatre, the first modern institution of theatre in India. The course will delve into the aesthetics and politics of Parsi theatre, exploring its actors, writers, collaborators, and its influence on Bollywood. It also specifically focuses on Parsi stagecraft and innovative designs in theatrical elements such as Space, Time, Body, and Performance.

Read more at: https://www.unescoparzor.com/academicprogramme 

WRIT. Reason and Writing, Art and Design | Sept-Dec 2024

Fanshawe College, London, Ontario

This course introduces students to essential principles of reading, writing, and reasoning at the postsecondary level. Students identify, summarize, analyze, and evaluate multiple short readings and write persuasive response essays to develop their vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, and critical thinking. 

Workshops/Creative Laboratory

Mechanics of Playwriting | Facilitator | 2025

Sawitri Theatre, Mississauga.

An eight-week playwriting intensive, where, in a studio-style workshop setting, students were equipped with tools to undertake their first full-length playwriting projects. Some of the students went on to finish their drafts and stage their plays.

First Draft: Ideas Lab Second Edition | Co-Facilitator | 2020

Indian Ensemble, Bangalore.

The Ideas Lab, a six-month long venture, provided a space for emerging and experienced theatre practitioners to explore and flesh out ‘ideas in progress,’ which, in turn, led to the participants writing the first drafts of their works. 

Read more at: https://firstdraftideaslab.wordpress.com/about/ 

Visiting/Guest Lectures

2024. “Basics of Writing Crime Fiction”. English and Writing Studies, Western University. March 17. 

2022. “Folk Theatres in India.” Wilson College, Mumbai. 

2021. “Dialogue Writing in Fiction and Theatre”. Department of Languages and Cultures, Western University. October 29.   

2019. “Introduction to Fiction Writing.” Department of Engineering, Ahmedabad University.