Founder & Mentor · Nov 2020 — Jan 2026
The WeDesi Festival
A music festival built in Gujarat, and handed on.
- Editions
- 5
- Attendees
- 700+
- Years running
- 5
Founded and scaled a music festival in Gujarat through the hardest possible years to run live events. Five editions, 700+ attendees, and a core team that now runs it without me.
Starting a live music festival in November 2020 was, on paper, a bad idea. The constraint turned out to be the useful part: every edition had to be planned around rules that could change in a week, which forced a kind of operational discipline that a normal event would never have demanded.
Five editions later, the more interesting problem became succession. A festival that only works because one person is holding it together is not a festival, it is a hobby. Moving into a mentoring role — and having the team run it well without me — is the outcome I am actually proud of.