Hi!
I'm a musician working with a charity in London. I care about my people deeply! Very interested in politics, human rights, people. I sing and teach music, and I'm trying to play the ukulele. I live in London with my partner Abinav. Our house location is convenient - you can see the tube station from our window.

If you are considering staying with me,please read the house rules before sending a request!

1) while sending your request please include the time of arrival and departure if possible, or whether this is flexible.
2) Please do not request for more than 1 to 3 nights, though you are welcome to tell me the full date range of your visit.
3) I leave for work pretty early in the morning, at 7.30 AM so on weekdays you may need to leave accordingly. After I'm back home, on some days, I may have music classes that usually last for an hour
4) I am a vegetarian (possibly moving to veganism soon)
and I would appreciate this to be respected by my guests during your stay.

please let me know in some way that you have read this! :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We are both musicians - the chance for any new music introductions is exciting. We love to travel and meet new people.

Completely optional : If you can either contribute to or give feedback on designs on a few websites that I'm working on, or to conversations on ideas to eradicate poverty amongst rural women this would be helpful.

Interests

• human rights
• music
• guitar
• ukulele
• charity
• information technology

Music, Movies, and Books

I teach Indian classical and folk music. I sing and my husband is a guitarist. We also love Beatles, Queen, amongst others.
Music : Beatles, Queen (current favs), classical music (Mozart, Beethoven), Indian bollywood (A.R. Rahman, Jatin Lalit) Tamil favourites : Ilayaraja. Indian classical music: Ranjani Gayathri, Abhishek Raghuram, my guru Ranjani Ramachandran. My music website is www.sjanani.com
Books : LOTR, huge Harry Potter fan, To Kill a Mockingbird, One Part Woman, Gone with the Wind, PG Wodehouse, Pride & Prejudice and all the other Jane Austen books

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cross country skiing at -25 degree celcius on the frozen baltic sea

Teach, Learn, Share

Music. Food. Travel.

Bid farewell to my well paying corporate sector job in order to live in a water-less village for 2 years to try and understand poor people's issues. So, lots of stories about India - where I plan to work in the long term amongst people

What I Can Share with Hosts

We travel a lot - so general travel stories.

I bid farewell to my well paying corporate sector job in order to live in a water-less village for 2 years to try and understand poor people's issues. So, lots of stories about India - where I plan to work in the long term amongst people

Countries I’ve Visited

Bhutan, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, United Kingdom