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I was up above it, now I’m down in it…

Over the past year, I’ve started organizing a group of of fellow classical indian music students in a group called maahaul. We’ve been getting together once a month to exchange knowledge and ideas, we’ve been getting together on a weekly basis to practice, and we’re starting to organize concerts for ourselves to perform. that’s sweet.

“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned – everywhere is war.” (c) Bob Marley

ARTist

Some things you should know about me. First and foremost, I’m an artist at heart. I’m fascinated by the tango between artistry and craftsmanship that every artist is constantly dancing. As creative as we try to be, there’s also an aspect of technicality and quality that’s a necessity for any artists. A painter needs to paint really well, and consistently paint well every time before they can consider painting the Sisteen Chapel. My passion is in music. I play sitar, bass guitar, I dabble a little with rap and poetry, I make dope beats, and I try to put ‘em all together. Currently, I’m concentrating more on my sitar playing skills and I’m pretty much only playing my sitar everyday. I’ve stopped performing for a while to give myself a chance to really concentrate on cleaning up my skills and really learn the style of Classical Indian Music. I feel I have to understand the roots before I can attempt to put my own spin on a style that’s some 4000 years old.

WORKer

Secondly, I’m a damn good software developer. I gotta pay for the rock star gig somehow, right? I approach my work with technology in many of the same ways I approach my music. It’s all about breaking things down and putting them back together again to find solutions to a problem. I do that everyday at work. And I apply it to more than just technology solutions, we’re constantly understanding new business rules, and deciding how to apply and implement them using new and already existing applications. The ‘technology of the day’ at work right now is Java and XML. SOAP and Hibernate are cool.

So that’s me. Check out some of my music, video, and art in the ARTist section, and check out some of my usability, technology, and design in the WORKer section. Then you’ll know enough about me to contact me and send me a really long e-mail, that would be cool.