Sonya Sapru trained as a commercial artist and went on to work as an art director in advertising.She left when she became a mother. In the space that opened up, she wrote Zaika, a record of Kashmiri Pandit cuisine, drawing on her family recipes. It was published by Harper Collins in 1999. At the same time she returned to painting, working on canvas, glass, and paper. Her works have been exhibited in galleries across India and abroad, held in private collections, and acquired for the Imago Mundi Collection, an archive of contemporary art from around the world. She then set up Sonya Sapru Designs a studio in New Delhi. What began as a graphic design firm moved into homeware, clothing, and art that lives at the intersection of heritage and design. Now joined by her daughter Sarojini, the work has become collaborative and generational. Together they research, write, and make, tracing motifs through archives, mapping culinary histories and aesthetic practices of the Kashmiri community. This is what they call a living legacy.