Expatriate, in Europe for studies. Have experience in journalism, civil society sector & human rights activism.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To be able to travel without much resources, and of course to meet new people.

Interests

Talking, walking, reading, writing, traveling, art, literature, ideas. And of course music, movies, and partying. ;)

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• beauty
• social action
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• world music
• communications
• history
• philosophy
• cinema
• meeting new people
• laughter

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Unbearable Lightness of Being, One Hundred Years of Solitude, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Of Human Bondage, Crime and Punishment, The Art of Loving, The Outsider, Sophie's World, Snow, Orientalism, 1984, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Stranger, The Fall, Cosmos, The Open Society and its Enemies, The Birth of Tragedy, Being and Nothingness, Republic, Howl, The Heart of Darkness, The Great Gatsby, Poetry by Faiz, Ghalib and many more.

Music: Pink Floyd, The Doors, Jimmi Hendrix, Jazz, Queen, AR Rahman, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Hans Zimmer, Johnny Cash, Gustavo Santaolalla, Led Zeppelin, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, South Asian folk and Sufi music, and more.

Movies: Casablanca, Before Sunrise, Trainspotting, This is England, Gandhi, Fight Club, Apocalypse Now, Inception, My Cousin Vinny, V for Vendetta, Into the Wild, Cloud Atlas, 12 Angry Men, The Pianist, Schindler's List, Full Metal Jacket, The Lives of Others, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dead Poets Society, American Beauty, Good Will Hunting, The Godfather, Perfume, Scent of a Woman, Braveheart, Gladiator, American History X, The Truman Show....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled on foot for about 125 km in a spontaneous plan to explore countryside.

Teach, Learn, Share

Music, yoga, art, poetry, love, ‘ways of seeing’, different cultural sensibilities.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Whatever I could. Perhaps food, drinks, or any of the other essentials.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands, Pakistan