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2019
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The Culture of Food from India: The Place of Comfort Foods (Invited Speaker, OSHER, University of California-Riverside Campus)
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Layered Culinary Heritage (Upcoming, Invited TEDx Speaker, University of California-Riverside Campus, TBD)
2018
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Fearless Indian Cuisine (Invited Presenter, Orange County Fair, California)
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Spices For Health (Invited Speaker, Ross Business School, University of Michigan)
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Comfort Foods In Indian Cuisine* (Invited Chef, Melissa’s World Produce, California)
2017
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Ancient Cuisines: Modern Interpretations (Invited speaker at Cultural Historians Of Southern California’s monthly lecture series, Los Angeles)
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Comfort Foods & Us (Invited speaker at Cultural Historians Of Southern California’s monthly lecture series, San Diego, CA)
2016
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Lunch with The Chef (Cookbook Panelist, Second Annual Milton Literary Festival, Milton, GA)
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Your Passion Project: You Can Dream It, But Can You Pay for It? (Panelist, International Association of Culinary Professionals, IACP2016, Los Angeles, CA)
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Layering Spices & Flavors: The Basics of Indian Cuisine* (Invited Guest Speaker, Le Courdon Bleu, Pasadena, CA)
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Indian Breads* (Invited Guest Chef, Le Courdon Bleu, Pasadena, CA)
2015
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Layering Spices & Flavors: The Basics of Indian Cuisine* (Invited Chef, Melissa’s World Produce, California)
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The Hot New Genre of Food Writing (Invited Panelist, Indo-American Arts Council’s second Annual Literary Festival, NYC, with chefs & authors: Suvir Saran, Vikas Khanna, Saransh Goila)
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Beyond The Degree: Shaping Your Future (Invited Guest Speaker, Career Guidance, Mithibai College, Mumbai)
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Elements of Landscape Design (Invited Guest Lecturer, HR College, Mumbai)
2013
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Hinduism & The Elements of Living Culture (Invited Guest Speaker, Chattahoochee Technical College, Atlanta)
2006
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Listening – Envisioning – Uniting: Shaping Atlanta’s neighborhood parks through Park Pride’s park visioning process (Poster session, edra37, Atlanta, GA)
2005
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The making of an immigrant home: representation and improvisation of inherited cultural landscapes in immigrant homes.
(Invited Speaker, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR), Mumbai, India)
(Invited Panelist ~ Environmental Design and Research Association Conference, edra36, Vancouver, Canada)
2004
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Experiencing the sacred through the temporal: seeking boundaries and interpreting the mundane (Invited Panelist & Moderator: Environmental Design and Research Association Conference, edra35, Albuquerque, NM, pp.100-101)
1998
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Bombay to Mumbai: changing landscape perceptions (Invited Speaker, ‘The Brown Bag’ lecture series, ‘The Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies’, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois)
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Public Open Spaces & Growth (Invited Speaker, City, Space & Globalization, An International Perspective, Symposium, University of Michigan)
And others