I am a TED Fellow!
The last year has been the most incredible time of my life with so much happening and things taking such drastic turns! right from quitting my IT career to now getting married, it has been a series of waves I have been riding! One thing that stands out is becoming a TED Fellow, a dream I have cherished from the first time I heard and read [...]
Continue Reading →My Equation with God
| Date: April 17, 2009 | Categories: Misc, Personal | Comments: 8 Comments | Share: |
This was something I had written for a local daily here in Bangalore when they asked me for my views on Religion and why I follow the religion I follow. I had this in my drafts for a long time and decided to just post it today! —— I am not religious in the true sense of the word and it is my opinion that most people have their [...]
Continue Reading →Engaged :) (Unofficially!!)
| Date: March 28, 2009 | Categories: Personal | Comments: 5 Comments | Share: |
After 5 years of dating and wooing and falling in love over and over, Shilpa and I decided it was finally time to, in a manner of speaking, have our cake and eat it too Just like when we started dating, it was she who finally popped the question that mattered and I would be a fool to say No!. Its not very often in life that such good deals [...]
Continue Reading →Art for Art’s Sake!
| Date: March 18, 2009 | Categories: Featured, Misc, Personal, Photoblog | Comments: 14 Comments | Share: |
Ivan Germon (Pronounced EeVon Jermoine) is a graffiti writer (painter?) from France who I happened to meet at Bobby’s place when I was in Mumbai. He is travelling around India trying to write graffiti (or stick pre-written graffiti as the case may be) on walls here in different cities and has infact, done quite a bit of work on the walls [...]
Continue Reading →My Experiments with Photojournalism
| Date: March 12, 2009 | Categories: Personal, Photoblog | Comments: 2 Comments | Share: |
Ever since I started getting somewhere with my photography, I’ve wanted to do photojournalism. Its just something that I have been wanting to do for quite sometime now. So after waiting for the right time to come along and waiting to see if I can get some “assignments” hooked up to do something, I have decided its time to [...]
Continue Reading →Mumbai Meri Jaan
| Date: March 9, 2009 | Categories: Personal, Photoblog | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
Over the past year or so, I have made so many trips to Mumbai and from absolutely hating the place and not being able to stay here for more than a weekend at most, I have come to know and love this place … a LOT! Infact, I would never have thought that this would be possible, but I think I would happily move here and have a ball of a [...]
Continue Reading →Allegro Fudge
A while back, I had asked all of you to suggest a name for the band I was playing with. A lot of interesting suggestions came up, but what stuck was “Allegro Fudge” which was suggested by none other than Derek Sivers himself! Infact, it was suggested as a spur of the moment thing and without even knowing what it was for! But it [...]
Continue Reading →Must Eat In Bangalore – Part 1 – Drunken Beef in Shiok / Moss
I thought I would start a new series on my blog of particular dishes I recommend from various restaurants in Bangalore. I have been a foodie all my life and have been exploring all of Bangalore for new and interesting eating options and it totally helps that I eat just about anything edible So the first in my series is the most widely acclaimed [...]
Continue Reading →Changeling
| Date: January 17, 2009 | Categories: Personal, Photoblog | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
Its been quite a while since a movie really gripped me from the very start and then took me along with it and had more than half the theatre crying by the end of it! “Changeling” did precisely that and so much more! Its about a mother’s search for her missing son and how things twist and turn in the most interesting ways! [...]
Continue Reading →Sigh – The Short Film
| Date: January 13, 2009 | Categories: Music, Personal | Comments: 3 Comments | Share: |
About a year back, my good friend Mark, called me and asked if another friend Ram Ganesh, author and playwright and creator of some brilliant original plays like ‘Snakes and Ladders’ (which I admittedly watched 3 times because I so loved it!) can take one of Phenom‘s songs, ‘Resurgence‘ for a short film that he [...]
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