In Ripples in the Pond, the artist undertakes a nuanced exploration of Makharda, a peripheral township on the outskirts of Kolkata, West Bengal. Situated within a landscape marked by over twenty tranquil ponds, Makharda emerges not merely as a geographic locale but as a site of complex temporal and socio-cultural convergence. Through a process-based photographic inquiry, the artist renders visible the entanglements between memory, modernity, and the slow violence of infrastructural encroachment. The project is grounded in a personal act of return, both physical and affective, evoking the fictional sensibilities of Malgudi Days, an Indian TV series from the 1980s, which serves as an aesthetic framework through which to understand the semi-rural imaginary. The ponds function symbolically and formally as reflective agents, at once literal bodies of water and metaphoric surfaces that refract the tensions between past and future. The images employ scanning techniques: dragging photographs across the scanner bed during the scanning process creates glitch-like distortions that render natural and man-made forms alike into shimmering, wavy abstractions.