People who rock

Vivek Prabhu - the man responsible for the daily improvements and upgrades to this website. He first heard my work on his way to SF airport, aired on KQED, in July this year. I met him in person in Chicago last month, at the Kriti Festival. One of my favorite memories of that trip is breakfast with Vivek, and his friends Calai and Thorani, at the Cheesecake Factory, all of us in hysterical mirth over things only funny to desis.

A man who claims not to have a creative bone in his body, Vivek delivers a constant stream of ideas to my inbox on how to make this site more user-friendly, appealing, effective. And displays great patience at guiding a technophobic poet up the learning curve of cyber-communication.