Consumed by insatiable wanderlust and a deep-rooted passion for exploring exotic cultures, I’ve lived in or visited over 75 countries around the world. I am also the author of an Art/Travel book, Rambles into Sacred Realms: Journeys in Pen and Paint, which depicts my stories of twelve places of peace and power around the world retold through my own artwork and prose. I  have published nearly 1000 articles on travel, humor, and culture in various newspapers all over the world, and have won a Best Travel Writer of the Year award.

As a global citizen I’ve often found myself in strange situations, once being suspected of kidnapping my own son across the Israel-Jordan border, and on another occasion being grilled by a suspicious Sri Lankan immigration officer who wondered why someone of Indian ethnicity living in Thailand working for a U.S. company engaged in a project in Israel and South Africa would travel to Colombo on business. (You had to be there...)

As a much-exhibited artist I focus on fauna, flora, landscapes and ancient monuments, capturing their essence using a variety of techniques including scratchboards, watercolors, pastels, charcoal, oils and acrylic mediums. Over the past 30 years, I’ve participated in several group and solo exhibitions of my art works in the U.S. and across the world and have won several art awards. As a member of a number of prestigious artists’ organizations, including the International Society of Scratchboard Artists and Artists for Conservation, I regularly exhibit my work in various juried and non-juried shows organized by local art guilds in the Chicagoland area and other U.S. cities.

When I’m not holding a pen, brush, or an airplane ticket, I head up my own global company which has me frequently shifting gears between Thai, Hindi, Thinglish, Hinglish and English. I’m an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, and live near the exhilarating beauty of Lake Michigan in Wilmette, Illinois with my wife, and also my son and college-going daughter, who have figured out a way to spend more with their parents than the average empty-nester would get to!