Sunita Kohli

For ‘The Millennium Book on New Delhi’, published by Oxford University Press, Sunita Kohli wrote the chapter on Lutyens and New Delhi, titled ‘The Creation of a Planned City’.

Member of the ‘Advisory Committee on Maintenance and Modernisation of Rashtrapati Bhavan’ (ACMM)

In 2005, Sunita Kohli founded the ‘MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS, INDIA’ “to honour women artists of the past, promote the accomplishments of women artists of the present and assure the place of women artists in the future”. This is associated with the ‘National Museum of Women in the Arts’, in Washington DC, where she has also served on their National Advisory Board.

She is a Fellow of the ‘Halle Institute of Global Learning’ at Emory University in Atlanta, USA

Sunita Kohli is a member of the General Council of the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

Sunita Kohli is on the Academic Advisory Board of the Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Haryana.

Sunita Kohli, is an honorary co-expert consultant for the Integrated Development of the Samadhi Complex in New Delhi and the Samadhi to the late former Prime Minister, Shri Rajiv Gandhi in Sriperumbudur.

In January 2014, Sunita Kohli was appointed Chairperson of the School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal for a period of 5 years. This school is one of the leading national universities in India — to help define and implement a new vision for the field of architecture in the country.

I am really fortunate that Jimmy has asked me to work on a committee which is my deep passion. I hope we will be able to garner many many people, garner support across the world, use all resources & have the right people there. There is nothing like team work.
I hope when DLC is firmly established (very soon), we will have our own DLC imprint for books on Heritage and Culture.

Sunita Kohli is the President of K2INDIA. She is a research-based interior designer, a reputed leader in historical interior architectural and architectural restoration and since 1971, a manufacturer of fine contemporary and classical furniture.

Amongst many institutions in the USA and the UK, Sunita Kohli has lectured in Harvard and in Emory Universities and in the University of Edinburgh and the Glasgow School of Art in the UK. She has presented several papers on Design, Architecture, Historical Conservation, Literature, Mughal Jewellery as a Statement of Empire, World Heritage Cultural Sites in India and on Social Entrepreneurship. Presently, four books are under preparation and publication: a Children’s Series on Indian Culture, commencing with a book on Delhi’s Architecture, illustrated by the grandchildren, Anadya, Zohravar and Aaryaman Bhati; ‘Tanjore Paintings’; ‘Awadhi Cuisine from the Jehangirabad Kitchens’; and a book on ‘World Heritage Cultural Sites in India’.