Nivedita is curious about the collision of different knowledge systems brought on by colonization and the social, economical, and political forms they take today. She works with products of cultural processes – found images, ritual vessels, the sound of words, architecture, etc. – as materials that embody memories to re-frame them and visualize counter narratives.

She is a student of Vedānta philosophy who began to relearn Sanskrit to appreciate a language’s capacity in shaping a worldview. She recognizes its weaponization through colonial and nationalist mistranslations. What is being (un)learned, translated, fragmented, and forgotten are questions she often poses when studying Vedānta (written in Sanskrit) through its English translations. These questions seep into her art practice as investigations of embodied memories.