Nivedita is curious about the collision of different knowledge systems brought on by colonization and the social, economical, and political forms they take today. Her practice engages with products of cultural processes – found images, ritual vessels, the sound of words, architecture, etc. – as materials that embody memories to reframe them and visualize counternarratives.

She is a student of Vedānta philosophy. What is being (un)learned, translated, fragmented, and forgotten are questions she often poses when studying Vedānta through its English translations. These questions seep into her art practice as investigations of the impact of colonization and its consequent embodied memories.  She is a member of a collective of transnational artists—We da Pepo. As a collective, We da Pepo foregrounds the complex and contradictory experiences of living in the United States of America as immigrants.