The smallest things keep revealing the structure underneath.

I've spent fourteen years as a social science researcher, working across culture, women's lives, livelihoods, public health, and financial inclusion, primarily in South Asia, with some work in other parts of the world. Much of that work has been about how people live in systems, how they organise work and their lives within it. In particular how work, care, and responsibility are distributed, and how people are placed within those structures, across households and communities.

Three years ago, I became a parent. And, then again.
What shifted was not only what I was doing, but how I was living.
How I worked.
How I showed up for myself.
How I showed up in the world.
And, alongside that, what I began to notice more closely inside the house.

Becoming a parent changed what I was paying attention to. Not only in terms of care, but in how ordinary routines are structured, and how much of that structure goes unexamined.

The patterns I had studied in the field began to show up in more immediate ways.

In routines that repeat without being named.
In conversations.
In small decisions.
In systems that run without being named.

This site is where I follow those patterns.
Each piece begins with something ordinary. Something specific.
A dataset, a system, a repeated interaction.
And then moves outward, to understand what it reveals about how work, value, how roles are structured, and who is assumed into those roles.

This work is an attempt to make the ordinary legible, and how systems no matter how ordinary can be rethought, not just described.