West meets East

Eddie Vedder & Rahat Fateh Ali Khan along with Jeff Ament, David Robbins & John Densmore . Recorded in a concert "Dead man walking - Not in our name" at Central Park, New York, 1998.

Face of Love

Long Road

Why Indian Women rock!

Professor M. R. Venkatesh talks on Global imbalance - an imminent dollar crises.

Change the way we change

Copywriter: Jake Dubs
Art Director: Jeenal Shah

3rd Prize for ART 180 - Change for 10 on a dollar size bill.
Judged by Jelly Helm, no introduction required.
We also won a raffle draw.

Money can do a lot. Art can do a lot more. That’s why, on this 10th anniversary of ART 180, they asked for both — a $10 donation along with our artistic vision for making your community a better place. This was our small attempt.

TED: Ideas worth Spreading

Talks Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual.
In his talk, Wade how other non modern western cultures are not fail attempts of being us but unique attempts to answer the question "What is it being human?"
If humans are agents of cultural destruction, we could also be and must be facilitators of cultural survivals.

Jumanji with Dicota and Jeremiah at Swansborough Elementry High School.

Jeremiah, me and Dicota




I love kids. I have dozens of cousins who share a varied range of age difference. And I being the eldest of all have lot of kiddos in my family. I had spent 3 years during my undergraduate studies tutoring 3 of my favorite cousins and 4 other kids for State Drawing Exams. Reading book to Dicota and Jeremiah brought back those memories. The pleasant ones.

SouthSide Speed Way and Bollywood Music

Photographer - Jeenal Shah

An evening I spent getting to know the culture of car racing dancing to beats of bollywood music.
Dented cars and number plates, raging competition, planned strategies and surprise winners minus beer (atleast for me) warmed our heart. It was no close to Nascar but good enough for what my pocket could afford. Since the cars on tracks in this race were no F1s they were making noice I could not bare. I turned my ipod on and started listening to Bollywood remixed songs. Best move. My eyes were glued to the first three cars in race and music kept the momentum going. My ipod also made couple of rounds amongst my friends present in the stadium who were chilling with beer in one hand and groving to bollywood music. I cannot thank less to Kelly O' Keefe for introducing us to this. And also Steve Jobs.

First Friday Art Walk - Sep' 08

It was a nice drizzling evening on West Broad street right in my back yard that I realized Richmond wasn't as dead as I was thinking. Music, art and people hustling with excitement to explore what the city's and traveling artists had to offer. Some of the exhibits were put up in peoples houses. Even though overall taste wasn't exactly chique, it still brought the positive vibe of the city into lime light. There was innovation and a variety of art form. Lamps, ornements, glowing air bubbles, paintings, photography, music bands, food you name it and it was all there. It was definetly something I want to get back to. Of course we bumped into familiar faces and got reviews about exhibits ahead.
My favorite work was by Nick Kuszyk.

You can find more of the artist work on www.rrobots.com
I also liked this band and their music, though I didn't understand a word.


This whole experience reminded me of Mumbai. I would religiously every saturday visit Jahangir Art Gallery and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in the Fort area of South Bombay. This is also called Kala Ghoda or the Art District of Mumbai. The annual Kala Ghoda Festival is the best show. It brings the vibe of being a Mumbaikar to life. It is a cultural experience for sure.