JOURNALIST, WRITER, YOGI, ENTREPRENEUR
is an award-winning journalist who has been published in several countries. He began his career, which spans over three decades, with The Times of India in Mumbai. He has launched and edited magazines, written four books on different aspects of healing, and freelanced for the BBC, UNFPA, France 2, Ray of Hope, Teacher’s Training Centre, Tralee, Ireland, Gulf News and several other international media organisations.
He has co-authored books on AIDS and prostitution in South-Asia, been Executive Editor of three journals on the technical and human aspects of HIV/AIDS, and written extensively on the subject. The street is his muse. He also walks endlessly, drinks tea, reads Sri Aurobindo, does yoga, comments on sport, breeds snails and watches life with some irreverence. He lives and works in Mumbai, India.
Special interests include walking, pets, travel, yoga, exercise, collecting precious and semi-precious stones, alternate healing and lifestyles, massage, meditation, offbeat communities and people, sport, mentoring, cow products, silence, tea, astrology, numbers, aura reading, rudraksha power and spirituality. Would love to connect with people of diverse interests, shadows and consciousness.
Travelled extensively through India, Asia and parts of Europe.
Export batiks, wall hangings, jewellery of all kinds, Thangka and Mughal paintings, antiquities, cotton garments, sarongs, embroidered skirts, bed linen and upholstery, scarves, shawls, silk garments, leather goods, peepal leaf paintings, dolls, puppets, paper and other bric a brac. Sourced directly from the manufacturer at wholesale rates. Arts and crafts are a passion.
Projects on hand include a book on AIDS & Sexuality in India, a book on chakra healing, a book on the powers of rudrakshas, a book of short, erotic stories and more hands-on research of marginalised existence.
Freelanced for the BBC, Channel 4, France 2, UNFPA, Ray of Hope, ARCON Centre, Tralee Teachers’ Centre, Ireland, Gulf News and several other international media organisations.
Have a unique body of work on gypsies, street life, HIV/AIDS, prostitution in south Asia, yoga, alternate health and erotic fiction.
Lectured on Indian affairs in Europe.
Won the first Lilian Khare Award for Rehabilitation Journalism for a series of articles on the challenges of physical disability.
Was Sports Editor of Youth Times and Yachting Correspondent of The Times of India, The Daily and Amrita Bazar Patrika, and Editor of Parade. Also Sub-Editor and Reporter TOI, Features Editor The Daily, and South India Bureau Chief of the Blitz group.
Launched and edited journals of different genres: from general interest to martial arts to health, hospitality, adult and social issues including three newsletters on HIV/AIDS and one on Ayurveda.
Biography of Dhanvantari Award winner, the late Dr.Jussawalla, 2012-13.
Ghost written and edited over 97 books/pocket books.
Yoga Stories: Included in an anthology of 90 yogis and yoginis from around the world. Published in the USA in 2012-13.
Co-editor Wisdom of our Mothers, Indian edition, 2012.
One of 88 global writers in Wisdom of our Mothers, a collection of essays to commemorate Mother’s Day, 2010.
International film projects based on the book are also being worked through.
Karma Sutra – Adventures Of A Street Bum, my new book, packs 20 years research on HIV/AIDS, TB, street, brothel and high end prostitution, child labour, homosexuality, Devadasis, Hijras, drug and alcohol abuse, the trafficking of women from Nepal to India including the famed Tulasa Thapa saga, the first ‘recognised’ HIV/AIDS case in Goa, and corruption, despair and desolation on the Indian street. Kannada and Italian editions to be released soon among a number of other languages. The unedited version titled Karma Sutra – Essays from The Margin was first published by Saga Books, Canada, in 2007.
Been a part of several international television documentaries on marginalised living.
Over 3,000 articles in more than 30 journals in 5 countries and 15 books, authored, co-authored, included in anthologies, or researched, in print. Began my career with The Times of India in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
Over three decades of expertise in writing, editing, printing, and exports of exquisite Indian arts and crafts.
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