CURRENT MISSION

To those much is given, much is expected. It is just a question and we have to think how we answer this :)

ABOUT ME

I am fun loving, simple and easy going person with lots of small little ambitions of a child. Being inquisitive and curious by nature, I love to embrace every new experience with overwhelming acceptability. Being on quest of life and trying to capture all my memories and experiences through writing or clicking pictures. Overly enthusiastic about hidden potential of a child underlying every human being, I try to live as close as a kid can with utmost sense of responsibility and tenderness. I like talking, cooking and being in nature. Smiling faces makes my day and give me feel of being on cloud nine every now and then. I am a Structural Biologist by passion of finding a panacea and aspiring to be a researcher driven by my inquisitiveness. I landed in Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland in June 2010 as a doctoral candidate and still learning on this exciting trail. I am just a another wanderer on this beautiful quest of life and trying to fill my canvass with every possible color :)

PHILOSOPHY

Never stop being a kid. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.
Richard Bach

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

In the battle of life, it is not the critic who counts; nor the one who points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the doer of a deed could have done better.
The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who does actually strive to do deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends oneself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he or she fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Interests

Hiking, Biking, climbing, photography, star gazing, knitting dreams and trying to make them reality, spreading smile [its contagious :-D], reading, jotting down my thoughts and philosophies, cooking for my friends, playing with kids, being in nature, volunteering, intellectual discussions....in short anything that enlightens me with intricacy and delicacy of nature's craftsmanship :)

• fish
• culture
• writing
• photography
• coloring
• education
• dining
• cooking
• indian food
• walking
• reading
• socializing
• knitting
• magic
• cycling
• fishing
• hiking
• rock climbing
• paragliding
• biology
• teaching
• philosophy
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Saaransh, Serendipity, Inception, Princess Diary, The Notebook, Troy, A walk to Remember, The Bucket List, Ratatouille....
Music: A. R. Rahman, Shaan, Pink Floyd, Indian Oceans, Premal and Mitten...
Books: A Brief History of Time; The Journey Home; The Secret; Celestine Prophecy; The Alchemist; Eat, Pray and love; The Winners Stand Alone; Anathem; The Woman in white; Treasure of Isles; Angel and Demons; Da Vinci code.....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching Aurora Borealis
Walking on Baltic Sea
Gazing moon, mars and venus through telescope
Leaving both my hands free while biking in rain
Watching last Venus transit of this century
Tadpoles metamorphosing into small frog
Cave Hiking
Being a kite during paragliding
Getting mesmerized every now and then with virtuosity of nature :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to delve in human intricacy through every vivid possible angle. Being biologist I fish for the light of a magic bullet that can serve as a template for drug designing and being a amateur philosopher I love to explore human behavioral intricacy and dilemma with enormous possibilities. My window for both the aspect is through a fine balance of degree of randomness and orderliness that lies with. I like to enlighten myself and other's with intellectual discussions.
I can share my way of looking at things, my contagious smile, zeal to contribute, cooking Indian food and little know about Indian culture and traditions :)
I would really like to meet people who are open, have zeal to contribute, carries a vision or an idea to make a world a global family knitted through a framework of trust and compassion, involved in teaching or research, working with children, can enlighten me with different education systems and their outlook for bringing a change to make this beautiful world more beautiful :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Switzerland, United Kingdom