CURRENT MISSION

Learn more about wine ;)

ABOUT ME

Open minded, curious, with an Asia fixation

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live. Explore, appreciate, and learn from the diversity of people and cultures on our planet.

Everything is interdependent, everything is in a flux, nothing is fixed. It is us who, in our struggle to understand and make sense of the surrounding world, categorize and divide it into ostensibly independent phenomena. That those categories and divisions vary between different cultures and languages, only goes on to show how artificial they are - and yet how necessary and interesting to explore.

We are naught but temporary knots of various strings and fibers, out of which we struggle to build identity, and construct meaning. Inasmuch as human experience can be daunting, it is beautiful and fascinating in all its shades.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CS has been amazing. I hosted many great people, and myself stayed in various places, from a posh house filled with Chinese antiques, to a flower farm, to a room at the back of a massage parlour, to a village boarding school. And made a few good friends on the way :)

Interests

Reading, learning languages, travelling, cooking, baking, wine, atheism, religion, philosophy, science, evolution, anthropology, cultures, traditions, folklore,

• folklore
• photography
• festivals
• cooking
• wine
• baking
• flowers
• reading
• traveling
• anthropology
• languages
• religion
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: documentary, ethnographic, period, international. I like films talking about social issues

Music: classical, lounge, ethnic, folk. Sometimes pop and clubbing.

Books: history, anthropology, evolution, languages, philosophy, travel, colonialism (and post-).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Conducted research on transgender people in India. Participated in a religious festival celebrated by thousands of transgenders from all over India. Also saw the Jagannath chariot festival (ratha yatra) in Puri, Orissa. Climbed the Tirumala hill to the temple of Sri Balaji-Venkateshvara - the richest and busiest temple in the world.

Teach, Learn, Share

learning Thai and Malay, need to practice my Hindi too lest it evaporates from my head.

can teach you some Polish

we can also exchange photography tips

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Laos, Lithuania, Malaysia, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Poland, Thailand, United Kingdom

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