Welcome to my studio.  It will be my pleasure to share my work with you. I started making handmade paper in 1998. After 17 years of making TV commercials in Bombay, I decided I wanted to do something that "reconnected" me to the earth. Papermaking has put me on that path.    I love the look and touch and feel of beautiful paper. I enjoy exploring various natural fibers. The interplay of light and paper excites me and ways to make paper 3-D, through texturing, sculpting, layering...is like play. I hope that the fun I have, shows in my work. As raw material, I use only natural fibers that are waste from agriculture and the rural cottage industry. Banana, mulberry, kora grass, jute, sisal......wonderful fibers that make beautiful, strong paper. I use a Hollander beater, lifting paper with traditional deckle and mould. My new studio in Bangalore, has been constructed with mud bricks, and is designed to harvest rain water and also recycle waste water from both, the papermaking process and sewage. This water is used in my garden, where I grow some organic fruits and vegetables. In the studio we are always developing paper and paper products, with new fibers that we find near the projects that I am involved in.