CURRENT MISSION

Build my lung power to blow away the green house gases!!..count me in green projects

ABOUT ME

I am an engineer living in Finland for the lat nine years, with my roots in India. Fond of sports, hiking and the outdoors, music and dance, and understanding people and their culture, and active also at the local volunteer-run circus group.

Back in my home-country in India, I hosted a few student travellers who shared many things from the wide, wonderful world that I had not seen and from colourful, friendly India, that I had not seen either!!.. because many of my guests had explored more of India than I had. My hidden mission is to convince the world that Bollywood movies (atleast some of them) have some great stories to tell too!

PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy? What is that? :-)
"Forget not your dreams, they shall sustain you till the end" Ruskin Bond

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

If out-of-towners visit my town (currently Helsinki), I will be happy to share some of my daily activities, show around the city and cook a "survival food" meal for us spiced with our collective adventure stories!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

CS has helped me understand people better and build new friendship bonds.

Interests

I like to participate in projects to improve the quality of education: A few years ago, some of us at Bandra East Community Center's Shelter Home (Mumbai, India) had organized an activity of learning English while basketball for students at the shelter home. We progressed quite well but could have done better. (I will be happy to share my experience.)

• cooking
• off-roading
• country music
• volleyball
• engineering
• repairing

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS: Chocolat, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sea of Poppies, The Room on the Roof, City of Joy, Marker, Julius Caesar
Short Stories: The Seven League Boots, Remember the Roses, The Happiest Man, The Diamond Necklace... a lot of Maupasant and Saki
MOVIES: Do Ankhen Barah Hath (a Hindi movie about how a poice officer reforms seasoned criminals), Chachi 420 (India's version of Mrs Doubtfire, believe me, better than the originial:-) Titanic, Life is Beautiful, Children of Heaven..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Self-published a guide on Mumbai Local trains.

Teach, Learn, Share

A few years ago was part of a team that prepared a documentary on Sadhana forest in Auroville, India.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, Finland, Germany

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, India