About

 I'm an Electrical Engineer from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University in Chennai, India with an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Johnson School of Business, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. During my MBA studies, I was also selected as an exchange student with the London Business School where I did my third of four semesters

   At the time Avi (back) met me (front) in summer 1999, I was working at designing high end home linen for export to Europe amongst other textile related export activities. With an innate eye for colour, form, texture, balance and harmony, in his spare time, I also sketched furniture designs and created interior spaces which could be likened to 3-D abstract art, filled with eclectic forms of furniture and bric a brac, juxtaposing the new and the old as well as forms and objects d'art cutting across the different design movements of the 20th century

   Avi and I have just begun our 20th year together in summer 2018. In the initial years, I used to do my interiors on my own but the interiors soon were done by us both. It was only in the project Centralis that I conceded to Avi, who then went about choosing the wall colours, a significant part of the furniture and bric a brac himself

   The poem 'Light's Song' was written for Avi by me. I composed it and typed it out in three minutes flat in 2008 and haven't changed a word since. I believe Consciousness channeled the poem through me. 'Beauty' was inspired by the Silent Sermon of the Buddha. 'Fragile' also churned itself out of me as an effortless word fugue

   The pieces of creative writing that accompany 'Gandhinagar' and 'City of Eternal Light' are excerpts from a book that I am currently writing

   I can be reached at (mobile) +91 98844 99861 or (email) ash@ash.today