Prateek is a designer, writer, and social theorist investigating the politics of language in the afterlife of colonialism. He studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture before graduating as a Young India Fellow from Ashoka University. He is currently pursuing an MA in cultural studies, critical theory & analysis at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. His practice is a critical interrogation of language, power, and community in the context of South Asia’s difficult colonial past. His latest project (with the Urdu Project and Futura Trōpica Netroots) was a socially-engaged art installation called Ganga-Jamuna Market that looked into the Partition of the Indian subcontinent through the dichotomy of Hindi and Urdu, twin languages that share heritage, literature, and an immense vocabulary only to be torn apart across religious and geographic lines. Currently, at RISD, Prateek's thesis explore the colonial legacy of the English language, the politics of World Englishes, and their role in modern curriculums in postcolonial South Asia.