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Meena

All Things Must Pass...

About Me

Check out the Inoculated Radio show I played on, airing tonight!...


Laid back...
Please check out my band, ASIAN CRISIS . We're on MySpace too -- www.myspace.com/asiancrisis . (That's the music that's playing now.)
I want to be a healer when I grow up.
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'"- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In the beginning was noise. And noise begat rhythm. And rhythm begat everything else." -- Mickey Hart, "Drumming at the Edge of Magic"

"Among the many forces in which the human spirit has tried to express its innermost yearnings and perceptions, music is perhaps the most universal. It symbolizes humanity's search for harmony, with oneself and others, with nature, and with the spiritual and sacred within and around us." -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others." - Paramahansa Yogananda
Quite a powerful statement: "We are facing the threat of global challenges stemming from the genocidal, immoral, sick, and corrupt elite currently governing the United States, which appear to have no limits" - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it." -Confucius

My Interests

People, Music, playing Tabla, dancing (Bharata Natyam (Indian Classical)), Travel, Progressive Politics, Osteopathic Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Tibet, Social Justice, Volunteering, Krishna, spirituality, yoga, meditation, the World, Sindhi Heritage, Self Realization Fellowship, Peace, Ahimsa, vegetarian peeps, the elderly population, coffee, trying to do some good, George Harrison, family, good vibes, anything Caribbean, occasional booty shaking, California, unity, museums, Asian art

I'd like to meet:

Open minded, positive people Musicians (especially percussionists)a Muse (a male one)I've been blessed enough to meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama. So basically anyone else I am fortunate enough to meet is icing on the cake. I love icing.

Music:

The Beatles; 311; Ustad Zakir Hussain; Reggae; Dancehall; Soca; George Harrison; Drumming of all traditions; Indian Genres: Hindustani, Tabla, Bhajans (Anup Jalota), Ghazals (Ghulam Ali), Bhangra, Qawalli (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), Carnatic, Folk; West African drumming; Bata; Ozomatli; Nitin Sawhney; Asian Dub Foundation; Shakti; Karsh Kale; Hip Hop; Apache Indian; Reggaeton; Flamenco; Oldies; Beck; Bjork; Red Hot Chilli Peppers; Blur; Cheb i Sabbah; Rage Against the Machine; India.arie

Movies:

Hard Day's Night; Lacho Drom; Baraka; Jalsaghar (The Music Room) - Satyajit Ray; Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle; Drumline (takes me back to my days on the drumline); Mr. and Mrs. Iyer; Water; Blood Diamond

Television:

Jeopardy!, 24, Prison Break

Books:

Autobiography of a Yogi; Many Lives, Many Masters; Drumming at the Edge of Magic; the Prophet; Animal Farm; the God of Small Things; Anita and Me; the Alchemist; Only Love is Real

Heroes:

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi, George Harrison, Aung San Suu Kyi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.