ashokism...

Nov 5, 2025

Hyderabad clicks

Few random clicks during my visit to Hyderabad yesterday...

Nov 4, 2025

Nov 3, 2025

Two exciting worlds collide here - Music & Architecture... My Masters' thesis work (1998-99) at the School of Architecture and Planning ( SAP), Chennai. An attempt to trace the link between music and architecture... an attempt to give shape to music. The research was experimented in the design of a music Gurukulam.. The built forms drew their inspiration from Vanraj Bhatia's "Earth" from the elements series, based on the raga 'desh'...from the overall campus planning(macro) to the elemental detailings(micro) , the design gives physical shape to "earth"...

Here is the original hand written synopsis i had submitted to the thesis committee at SAP requesting an approval for my topic...

My thesis guide Prof. Ranee Vedamuthu, who was initially very skeptical on my ability to pulloff the topic, later became a big support. The biggest support however was my director Prof. Md Harris. I also remember my Carnatic music guru Reverend Chinniah who taught me the grammer and basics of Indian classical music,. I used to visit his home every Saturday for Music classes!

Music gurukulam - my final design project

Nov 2, 2025

Chatuchak weekend market

Visit to Bangkok is incomplete without a visit to the famous Chatuchak weekend market. With over 15000 stalls, its said to be the largest weekend market in the world. You can complete your entire Bangkok shopping experience in this place provided you are ready to walk. The full market opens on weekends and only a smaller section opens on fridays.

You can find everything here - clothing, souvenirs, bags, cosmetics, jewellery, etc. I did my entire purchase for my family and friends here at a very reasonable price ( with a bit of bargaining).Unfortunately we could only spend few hours here due to our busy schedule and couldn't explore the full market. shopaholics can easily spend a day here and still feel its not enough!