Associate Professor, Fashion Design at Pearl Academy. Alumnus of NIFT Delhi and Hindu College, Delhi University. A designer, academician, entrepreneur, and research scholar who has worked across export and domestic apparel markets with brands including Rene Derhy, Gerard Darel, April Cornell, Wills Lifestyle, and Westside. He has taught at both NIFT and Pearl Academy across History, Culture, Business, and Technology courses, and focuses on curriculum development and instructional design in fashion education. In this episode of Shweta's Talkies, Shweta sits down with Sriranjan Srinivasan — associate professor at Pearl Academy and an old friend — to unpack how fashion education in India has transformed: from the pre-internet grind of Purani Dilli fabric markets to a "ChatGPT generation" of students. They dig into AI's effect on creativity and patience, the shifting (and more informal) teacher-student dynamic, why originality still can't be outsourced to technology, and where Indian fashion is headed on the global stage.