SOOT

Happy Birthday to my incredible

I’m so grateful for everything you do for our family – your patience, kindness, and unwavering support mean the world to me. You handle everything with such grace, and your funny side always adds the perfect touch of light to our lives. ✨

Here’s to celebrating you every day as the 20 year old you claim to be.

♥️♥️

Getting back to my favorite type of embroidery—cross-stitching! 🧵🪡

When it came to capturing the twins’ tiny footprints, I didn’t want to just do a basic bear print (which we actually did at first). I wanted to give it a ✨Neha’s touch✨

So here it is: Ved and Veya’s foot impressions, measured exactly as they were at birth.
Yes, they were this tiny! 👣

A huge thanks to nani , who took over most of the work and was more motivated than I’ve ever been to get this piece done. Forever grateful to her for everything—especially this masterpiece! 😜

Apologies, this account is all about baby love now.
♥️♥️

Soot screen prep at

We’ve been collaborating with London-based company since 2019, and it’s been a perfect match! Why? Kapdaa’s products are crafted from fabric waste, while our soot ink is made from industrial waste—a sustainable product paired with sustainable ink. ♻️

Kapdaa’s bespoke, eco-friendly range includes everything from signature notebooks (like the one you see here) to luggage tags, coin purses, passport holders, coffee cup sleeves, and more. Additionally, you can get our soot print as a service on their products! 🌿

We’ve been collaborating with London-based company since 2019, and it’s been a perfect match! Why? Kapdaa’s products are crafted from fabric waste, while our soot ink is made from industrial waste—a sustainable product paired with sustainable ink. ♻️

Kapdaa’s bespoke, eco-friendly range includes everything from signature notebooks (like the one you see here) to luggage tags, coin purses, passport holders, coffee cup sleeves, and more. Additionally, you can get our soot print as a service on their products! 🌿

In My Mom Era 🩵🩷

Captured at 31 weeks

On our 3rd anniversary, our family has grown from two to four. So blessed to welcome our beautiful bundles of joy today ♥️ This picture captures us at 19 weeks.

Soot tags for .in
Recycled paper printed with soot tags 🩶

📸: .in

Inspired by nature, they turn waste into natural dyes and handmade cards 🌸



industrialwaste

Book printed with soot ink! 📒
We collaborated with and to bring her vision ‘rebirth’ to life.

Re-Posted • Rebirth, my planet-friendly poetry book comes to Mumbai - the city it was printed in ♥️ Swipe 👉🏽

In the process (and spirit) of launching the book here, I shed a few more layers - let go of more self-doubt, more limiting beliefs and of course, some actual layers - tresses too! 🌀

I am deeply grateful for the support of new friends, old friends, family, collaborators, so many many co-creators in Mumbai, to name a few (though there are many others that are not in Mumbai)-

🌀 Neha of SOOT for being my collaborator on the recycled + sustainable inks on this earth-friendly book. Thank you for helping bring my vision to life!

Book printed with soot ink! 📒✒️
We collaborated with and to bring her vision ‘rebirth’ to life.

Re-Posted • Rebirth, my planet-friendly poetry book comes to Mumbai - the city it was printed in ♥️ Swipe 👉🏽

In the process (and spirit) of launching the book here, I shed a few more layers - let go of more self-doubt, more limiting beliefs and of course, some actual layers - tresses too! 🌀

I am deeply grateful for the support of new friends, old friends, family, collaborators, so many many co-creators in Mumbai, to name a few (though there are many others that are not in Mumbai)-

🌀 Neha of SOOT for being my collaborator on the recycled + sustainable inks on this earth-friendly book. Thank you for helping bring my vision to life!

SOOT tags for .in 🌸
Ink made from industrial waste on recycled paper



in Inspired by nature, they turn waste into natural dyes and handmade cards 🌸

Soot tags for


For your eyes only... After much experimentation we have been able to develop tags and labels for ‘MoonWash’ in collaboration with Neha, founder of Soot. .
The tags have been printed on seed paper which can be further planted by IRO IRO wearers under a thin layer of soil; it will bloom within 4-6 weeks time. The labels have been printed on waste fabric. We made sure not to make anything more than needed. And we only needed to communicate “who made your clothes” and “why”. It is not our intention to just make each garment zero waste but to establish a circular system.
I met Neha at an event in Jaipur. She had developed an ink using industrial air pollutants, and I had started work on upcycling waste into hand-woven fabrics. For me it became imperative to collaborate with her and tell the story of soot in the IRO IRO style.
Here’s hoping you become a part of our story :)