I did my master's in German at the University of Delhi, and my M.Phil's research at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. The title of my M. Phil's dissertation was "Schatterierungen des Melancholischen in den Nachkriegselegien Paul Celans" or "Shades of Melancholy in the post-war elegies of Paul Celan". I have taught German as a foreign language for the last 14 years at various institutions, including J.N.U., D.U., Aligarh Muslim University and Amity University. I have coordinated two international translation projects at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Wuppertal, Germany. I was part of the South Asia broad translation project called "Poets Translating Poets" under the Goethe Institut Mumbai, where I worked as an interlinear translator.  In 2024, I presented a paper at Oxford University's Wadham College on Franz Kafka, held on the occasion of the 100th centenary of the death of Franz Kafka. I have mentored German to Urdu translators in the Diamantenschliff Übersetzungsakademie Workshop at the Goethe Institut, Mumbai, 2023. 

I was invited to participate in the International workshop Theater übersetzen 2022  and in Theater übersetzen 2021 of the Mülheimer Theatertage, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. 

I have been translating literary texts from German to Urdu for Goethe Institute projects for the last 7 years. Authors I have translated from German to Urdu and Hindi so far include Franz Kafka, Irmtraud Morgner, Silke Scheuermann, Sylvia Geist, Sibylle Berg, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Elisabeth Langgässer, Doris Gehrke, Katja Bohnet, and Tom Schulz. I have translated the authors Qurrat ul Ain Haider and Jamila Nishat from Urdu to German.  I have recently made a foray into Urdu Fiction with a short prose piece titled 'Manzar,' which was published in the Urdu Literary Magazine Imroz. 

I also recently organised the Goethe Society of India's German Studies Conference on the topic of Illness as Narrative at AMU in collaboration with the German Academic Exchange Service, the DAAD.

My areas of teaching and research include German as a foreign language, Translation theories and practical approaches to literary translation, German literature and history, Literary Theory, Western Thought, and Political theory.