A perpetual student; I love learning about anything, really.
I have a tendency to book trips very spontaneously, make friends with strangers, talk to pretty much anyone, and live my life going a mile a minute.

Some would say I am incredibly spontaneous and adventurous, others know me as driven and analytical. You can usually find me scouring through bookstores, admiring artwork in small galleries, wandering through markets in cities on weekend mornings, downing coffee with friends in cafes, or being contemplative while watching the sunset over the sea .

PHILOSOPHY

The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By occasionally hosting couchsurfers, attending meetings, getting to know fellow CS members and spreading the word that CS is a great community.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It's been great! Hosted lovely people, travelled together, built close friendships; shared nice stories, expanded horizons, learned, taught and so much more. Just fantastic!

Interests

Absurdity, Accents, Adventures, Alphabetical Order, Baking, Beer, Bonfires, Calvin n Hobbes, Chocolate, Cinema, Coffee, Conversations while brushing teeth, Festivals, Finding new music, FOOD, Helium Balloons, Hugs, Ice Creams, Languages, Long Walks, People Watching, Performing Arts, Photography, Picnics, Pranks, Quiet Mornings, Rainy days, Shoes, Simplicity, Singing Under the Shower, Smiling, Soaring Kites, Storytelling, Strangers, TED Talks, The Sea, Wandering around cities, Wet Window Panes, Writing long letters……..

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• singing
• performing arts
• photography
• beauty
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• beer
• coffee
• baking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• movies
• traveling
• music
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
12 Angry Men, A Beautiful Mind, A Clockwork Orange, Amelie, Before Sunset, Children of Heaven, Finding Nemo, Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, Grave of the Fireflies, Into the Wild, Letters from Iwo Jima, Life is Beautiful, No Man's Land, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Out of Africa, Scent of a Woman, Schindler's List, Spirited Away, The Godfather, The Hurt Locker, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, The Silence Of The Lambs, To Kill a Mockingbird, WALL-E, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail

Music :
Aerosmith, Anoushka Shankar, A.R. Rahman, Danny Elfman, Deep Purple, Dream Theatre, Dire Straits, Enio morricone, Eric Clapton, Frank Sinatra, Guns N' Roses, Hans Zimmer, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Lunatic Soul, Metallica, Natalie Merchant, Nitin Sawhney, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Poets of the Fall, Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, Raghu Dixit, Rahul Sharma, Regina Spektor, Renaissance, Sigur Ros, The Doors, Vera Lynn

Books:
1984 (George Orwell), Animal Farm (George Orwell), Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger), Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky), God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), Ice Candy Man (Bapsi Sidhwa), Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri), Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer), Life of Pi (Yann Martel), The Hungry Tide (Amitav Ghosh), The Japanese Wife (Kunal Basu), The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka), The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

TV Series (I think they deserve a mention)
Breaking Bad, Downtown Abey, Friends, Homeland, House of Cards, Mad Men, Orange is the New Black, Prison Break, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, The walking dead

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One amazing thing I have seen, again & again, is the kindness of strangers.

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH
Healthy vegetarian cooking, Basic Yoga, Languages like English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani and a little bit of Sanskrit

LEARN
Languages : French, German and Dutch

SHARE :
Memories, Travel experiences, Playlists, Beautiful stories, Literature, A huge genuine smile :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, India