His core areas of interest are educational innovation and the sociology, history and epistemology of India’s Medical Heritage.
In 1980 he started an NGO in Maharashtra and lived and worked for twelve years in a forested tribal taluka at the foot hills of the Western Ghats.
During 1985 – 1990, he seeded and directed a pioneering all India Network of NGOs called Lok Swasthya Parampara Samvardhan Samiti (LSPSS).
In 1993, he moved to Bangalore, where along with Sam Pitroda, he founded the Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT) and the 100-bed healthcare centre called Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (IAIM).
In 2013 the Government of Karnataka upgraded FRLHT into “The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences & Technology (TDU)”, Bengaluru.