Nanditha smiling outdoors in a white top and a light checked blazer, beside a leafy plant.

Somewhere between the Jedi Council and a printing press,you'll find me.

Kant said two things filled him with ever-growing wonder: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. I've never managed to keep it to two. My starry heavens come with lightsabers and warp drives, and I refuse to choose between the Force and the Federation. I'll happily argue both sides until everyone else gives up.

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My comic loyalties are split just as stubbornly. The Flash for the speed, Batman for the planning, Professor X for the mind, and Iron Man mostly for Jarvis. Everyone else wants the suit. I want the assistant quietly running everything in the background.

A bookshelf of comics and books with plants and a small framed picture.

Maybe that's why I can't leave a good idea sitting on a screen. I'm a paper person at heart. I print books and magazines simply because I want to hold them, and my desk is a permanent mess of experiments where old-fashioned art meets whatever new tech I've gotten my hands on that week.

A busy desk of art books, prints, a laptop and a printer, with Nanditha in the middle of it.

None of it leaves my hands until it feels right, and "right" is a moving target. I'm the kind of perfectionist who notices a misaligned margin from across the room and keeps nudging until the thing looks like it could never have been made any other way.

Nanditha at a laptop nudging layouts into place, screens and sketches all around.

And the moral law within? Still a work in progress, overseen by a long line of Greeks, Germans and Hindu seers, from Thales wondering what the world is made of, and the Upanishads asking who exactly is doing the wondering, to Hegel insisting it's all heading somewhere. I don't have a favourite. My favourite part is watching each of them argue with the one who came before.

Philosophers from Greece, Germany and India arguing around a seated reader.
A café wall hung with guitars and plants under a woven lamp.
Architectural models in cardboard on wooden steps.
Nanditha in front of a wall covered in graffiti.
Nanditha presenting next to a large screen in an office.
Nanditha walking down an empty road through a forest.
A selfie on a balcony against blue sky and trees.
Nanditha in her graduation gown with two faculty members at the 33rd convocation.
Nanditha beside her project on display at an exhibition.
Nanditha in her graduation gown in front of the convocation backdrop.
Graduates on stage at a convocation ceremony.

Curiosity, With a Bibliography

Nanditha at Pearl Academy's Portfolio 24 show, standing in front of a sequinned wall.

The Paper Trail

It started with an engineering degree at Acharya, took a detour through four internships where I learned that business models, services and stakeholders matter as much as screens, and led to a Master of Design at Pearl Academy, where I graduated with a Gold Medal and an excellence award in Research and Innovation. From there, I joined Rocketium as an intern and stayed on as a Product Designer. Along the way, a few trophies, scholarships and debate podiums found their way home too. The full story, with dates, details and every award, fits neatly on one page.

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The best work happens when

two people in the room refuse to settle