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About Me

Namaste, homies. Born and raised in the UPT, New Orleans, NYU brought me to the bright lights and I haven't looked back since. After coming to terms with Finance clearly not being for me I've been a part of the MTV News team, New York for almost five years, launching, and laying to rest MTV Desi along the way.

My Interests

Your mother. 24. Kati Rolls, Desi Women. Kajal. Mehndi Laden Hands. Finally making some money. The search for someone to serve.Anything by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Family Guy. M. F. Hussain, Bombay Sardak Chai, Raw Almonds, Deep Dish and Armin Van Burren, Domilises Po-Boys, 5 9th and Karma, Monsoon Rain, Marine Drive, Curves, Chaos, Dewar's, Lang's Beach House, The Five Star Diner, Badoooo! Mamoun's, Crowds, Jai Vilas Palace, Kwality...

I'd like to meet:

Everybody...and your mother.

Music:

Love it all. Probably don't own any Gospel CD's, but then again I'm young and don't have the fear of God in me yet.Give it some time...

Television:

Jack Bauer is God. That being said...Lost, Family Guy, The Simpson's, Southpark, Old School Elimidate, The Colbert Report, Daily Show, MTV Desi, MTV Chi, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras, The Office, Fawlty Towers (genius!!), Intervention, Conan O' Brien

My Blog

SAHARA and AIDS in India: my tour with Lydia Butts

AIDS has become a crippling epidemic, and for the most part goes ignored by the Indian goverment. Things have gone beyond finding someone to blame. Sex workers, ordinary Men and their Wives, and ...
Posted by Akshay on Mon, 21 May 2007 02:25:00 PST

UCLA TASER INCIDENT

I've never really sent out a blog before. But I just finished a piece that had me real hung up about with the kind of country we live in today. Not only are we as a nation in a foreign land, in an occ...
Posted by Akshay on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:10:00 PST