Award-winning Indian American innovator and musician Rajesh Mehta’s journey through continents, modalities, and streams both academic and socio-cultural is the kind of stuff novels are written about.

From migration in the formative years, to figuring out belonging on one’s own terms, navigating academia and arts amidst nations, to fatherhood, this conversation attempts to capture the journey that’s been, the challenges and gifts it brought with it and nuances in between that inspire his approach to music and life.