CURRENT MISSION

To sell myself (metaphorically) to travel.

ABOUT ME

I dabble in photography, travel writing, cinema reviews, academic research, eating kebabs, an occasional joint, talking about New Orleans Jazz or the lesser known Indian novels in English. I might throw in a poem or two when tipsy, and giggle to myself if no one talks for more than 3 minutes. There also might be a few stories to do with hanging out with Nobel Laureates and Porcupine-killing ambulance drivers. Academically, I have taught Political Science and Indian Politics for 3 years.

PHILOSOPHY

Mostpodernist.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have never really "couchsurfed", but have hosted people from Germany, Australia, Tanzania, France, Kenya, Sweden. Some of them are now friends, while one was probably an escaped convict. I will never know.

Interests

Food, Books, World Cinema, Swedish and Danish crime fiction TV shows, Graphic Novels, Political Science, Classic Rock and Jazz! A good ol' mix of wanky knowledge about the world.

• writing
• books
• folklore
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• politics
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• paragliding
• economics
• history
• languages
• political science
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Andrei Tarkovsky. Alain Resnais. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. Hitchcock. Metropolis. Cidade de Deus. Spirit of the Beehive. Chinatown. Film Noire. Kubrick. Werner Herzog. Apocalypse Now. Annie Hall. Wong Kar Wai. Kurosawa.
The Wire.
Led Zeppelin. Johnny Cash. Goldspot. Janis Joplin. Dylan. Marley. Iggy Pop. Jazz.
Confederacy of Dunces. Evelyn Waugh. Beckett. Kingsley Amis. Lord of the Flies. L'Étranger. Steinbeck. Vonnegut. Nabokov. Manto. Salinger. Ginsberg. Rimbaud.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw a Nobel Prize Winning Economist being offered a pirated copy of his own book by a street vendor.

Or paragliding from 3500 meters. That was cool too.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach-
Indian Politics, Cultural History, Cooking, Cinema, Music (yep, there is a rich Indian Jazz tradition).
Oh, and Portrait photography.

Learn-
Local languages and cooking. And local cultural histories.