Bio
How it began
People have a hard time guessing my accent. I've lived in the US since college and at this point speak pretty much with an American accent, but definitely with a twist! As I'm Indian-bodied, people often ask if I was born in India. When I tell them I was born and raised in Africa, in Kenya and lived there until I moved to the States in 1993, people are often surprised and definitely wouldn't guess my accent is actually Kenyan!
Kenya is where I first developed a relationship with Krishna Consciousness. During a family trip to Mumbai when I was 14, an uncle took me to the Juhu ISKCON temple, as my grandmother and I were staying in a hotel across the street, having been put up there by the airline due to a delay in our return flight to Nairobi.
A book distributor on the temple grounds asked me what my favorite subject was in school. Science, I responded and so he gave me "Life Comes From Life" in which Srila Prabhupada casually destroys the atheistic scientific point of view with seemingly little effort and great effect! It made a big impact on me as I read it on the flight home and perhaps I was more open to it -- like Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra -- since our plane shook so badly that everyone one board thought we were going to die. I said, "I am too young to die!" and noticed how my religious grandmother was quietly, cooly chanting her mantra (not the maha mantra) on her beads.
