The Team
Sundaresan Kumbakonam
Sundaresan Kumbakonam, has 3 decades of experience in the Semiconductor Industry. He split his time between the Silicon Valley in the Bay Area, USA and Bangalore India, designing chips and managing large engineering teams. In 2016, he quit as Senior Director, Engineering, Broadcom Corporation. He started Tapasya Yogashala in Bangalore. In addition to Hatha Yoga classes, the studio offers Yoga Teacher Training Programs. He is also working on a cloud-based platform to create and share recipes. He plans to curate traditional Indian recipes to promote home cooking. Sundar’s inner journey started in the 90s. In his quest for ‘something more’ than the usual life he read a lot. He came in contact with the Gurdjieff work in 2011 which provided a way to put theory into practice. He is an active member of Gurdjieff Foundation of India.
Sankalp Rawal
Sankalp Rawal is a screenwriter and Filmmaker based out of Mumbai. He is currently writing a Web-Series for Amazon Prime and another for MX player (Times of India). He has worked with renowned international directors such as Pan Nalin, Prakash Jha, Kunal Deshmukh and Alankrita Shrivastava. A short film, Samskara/Impressions, written and directed by Sankalp was an official selection at Kansas Film Festival, USA; Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Streatham Film Festival, London; and Southeast Asian film festival, New York. Raised by his grandparents, Sankalp had an early exposure to the Indian spiritual traditions and texts. The turning point in his journey was at the age of 18 when he came in contact with the Gurdjieff teaching. It compelled him to seek and verify deeper truths within himself as well as those embedded in ancient myths and texts.