As I write this, I am very conscious that my self-consciousness is probably the reason I haven’t paid much attention to my minuscule web site over the past decade and a half. So there is very little here describing my […]

Mind Shift


My Opportunity to Work on the Design of a Local Jamatkhana… …First came when I began working with FNDA.  My association with them was short but infused with passionate energy in the exploration of a cultural expression for Ismailis in […]

Burnaby Lake Jamatkhana


Waaay back in 1992, the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London offered me a Travel Grant to document Jamatkhanas in Gujarat, India. It was an exciting period for me, I was newly attached (to Joys, my partner) and newly detached […]

The Gujarati Jamatkhana Research Project



This being my first blog post, it is quite hard to find something important to say.  I’ll just have to see what rolls out of my fingers through this keyboard. I have been promising – no: threatening – to start […]

How do I start this thing?