2020 Interdisciplinary Challenge Grant, Ahmedabad University, for a project on Usable Pasts, Sustainable Futures.
2020 General Research Fund Competitive Award, for a comparative study of digital intimacy among young women in Bangalore, Singapore, Guangzhou and Hong Kong; Research Grants Council, Hong Kong.
2019 Travel grant from Lingnan University to participate in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Dumaguete, Philippines, July 2019
2018 Sino-British Fellowship to visit King’s College, London, UK
2018 Travel grant from Lingnan University, to participate in the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School, Kolkata, June 2018
2018 Travel grant from Lingnan University, to participate in Crossroads: Conference of the Association for Cultural Studies, Shanghai, August 2018
2017-18 Faculty Research Grant, for a research project on digital intimacy in young women in Guangzhou and Hong Kong
2017 Travel grant from Lingnan University, to participate in the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Seoul, July 2017
2017-20 Moonchu Foundation, Hong Kong, for a musical collaboration project with Indian singers, to be carried out in Hong Kong and Shanghai
2016 Moonchu Foundation, Hong Kong, for curating four musical events in Shanghai with Indian and Chinese musicians
2016 Lingnan University Arts Faculty Development Fund grant, for a project on India-China musical collaboration
2015 TISS Research Council Grant – for research leading to the curation of the project and exhibition Making Music-Making Space.
2014 India Foundation for the Arts – Arts Practice Grant for realizing the exhibition of Making Music-Making Space (June 2015, Studio X, Mumbai)
2012 TISS Research Council Grant – Urban Aspirations Programme, Research and Exhibition Project on Performing Modernity: Hindustani Music in Mumbai
2012 Grant from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority for Research and Film Documentation on Hindustani Music in the city – a Sonic Cartography
2004 Grant from the Prince Claus Fund, Netherlands, for a musical collaboration project, Jahaji Music: India in the Caribbean
1994 Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Travel Fellowship, to attend a Conference on the Indian diaspora in Trinidad, West Indies.
1994 University of Hyderabad, Faculty Travel Fellowship, to attend a Conference on the Indian diaspora in Trinidad, West Indies.