At Culture Shoq, we're a happy mad bunch of culture coolies going from station to station shouting, scouring, dancing about how the alternative arts and its other manifestations are slowly giving birth to a new India. We create, promote and curate India's contemporary, indie-urban art and culture experience.
Sudeip Nair
Hospitality consultant, music entrepreneur and ideas man, Sudeep Nair has made it his passion to be creative, and to be successful while he's at it. Among the credits the 31-year-old IHM-A graduate has to his name are setting up Gaia (now called Cocoparra), one of Pune's most expansive clubs and the delightfully named Padharo and P:Matka in Hyderabad. Both venues were sprawling, vast properties allowing him to express his creativity to the fullest. Sudeep oversees the company's marketing, branding, design & social media teams.
Pramod Sipahimalani
DJ, audiophile and music connoisseur Pramod has taken his passion and expertise with music to setting a benchmark in deciding how venues should ‘sound' like! Featured in Time Out Mumbai's most influential DJs of all time. Is responsible for selecting acts and networking with DJs, both locally and abroad. He regularly plays at every conceivable top venue and festival in the country – from Sunburn, The MTV Bloc Party, Blue Frog, Zenzi and Zenzi Mills(god rest their souls), Aurus and Bonobo in Mumbai to 360 and Touch in Hyderabad, Stone Water Grill and Gaia in Pune to The Lalit, the Park Hotel in Delhi to name a few. He has gigged throughout venues in Europe and was also specially featured at the Cologne Pop festival 2010, as one of DJs to watch out for from India. Pramod oversees artist management, event operations and event production.
Rajeesh Marar
Engineer, number cruncher, indie cinema buff and devourer of information, Rajeesh combines his background in chemical engineering with a passion for the creative arts. Previous work includes handling marketing functions for a specialty firm dealing in logistics of oil and gas which he happily said ta-ta to join the arts and culture collective. Rajeesh has since worked tirelessly to set up avenues for a multitude of filmmakers, comedians, poets, musicians, hip hop artists to hone their careers. Rajeesh oversees operations and business development.
Namrata Kedar
A graduate of NIFT, Namrata Kedar is the resident design doctor and fashionista, who combines her experience in graphic design with her love for the creative arts to breathe life into all those beautiful flyers and designs you all love so much. Namrata is responsible for guiding and bringing to life design at Culture Shoq and when not designing you can follow this active fashion blogger as she de-crypts fashion sensibilities.
Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan
Programming whiz, Foodie and defender of all things open source, Anjanesh loves code only next to his love for food in all its forms and heads our IT and programming. With 9yrs of renegade-solid experience across PHP, HTML, JavaScript and CSS, Anjanesh breathes life into our code across our websites. He also takes time off to routinely monitor the dietary habits of the entire team.
Bhavesh Shriyan a.k.a Vicky
Our only a.k.a and hip hop junkie who can also be seen teaching and b-boying in his other avatar RidiQ, Vicky monitors and updates our online social presence across Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Ustream. He also is the go-to event operations ninja for our ground activities. Just made a small cameo in a to-be released film among other credits. Has a tendency to injure himself consistently in between when time permits!
Viraj Manjrekar
A social activist and illustrator with a love for all things doodle, Viraj joins us fresh of the graduate boat and has recently made the transition from creative intern to a full time junior designer. Apart from illustrating he is also a hip hop emcee and spoken word artist and can be seen moonlighting at rap events around the country.