I come from a city called Cochin nearby the southern indian coast of the Arabian Sea. Growing amid myths, stashes of old palm leaf documents and in an almost 500 year old medieval home, has spurred in me a passion for history, archaeology and music.

With my citiy's own history being a Chinese, Portugese and Dutch colony succedingly since the 14 th century.
I lived and worked there until i was 23. Those were the days where i woke up to behold chinese fishing nets at the seaside, drinking home brewed portugese whiskey secretly, motorbiking to the ruins of old Dutch and Portugese fortifications where long lost battles were fought in the name of trade, religion and monopoly.
Being foolhardy enough for a while to throw away my life and lot by joining the millitary up in northern india.

In 2016 ,I decided to pursue my career and passions in Germany.
Here i am mostly off mountainbiking or hiking to an archaeologial sites or beholding nature and its wild.
Travelling and exploring culture in Eastern and Southern Europe.
Momentarily lavishing on good food and mostly pre-2000's movies.

PS: I am queer friendly.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To seek refuge, when I don a wanderers cloths travelling off away from home.
To provide refuge, to fellow wanderers.
Make friends.
Make memories.

Interests

Nature conservation and cultural pluralism are some interests, I try to contribite myself to the world, in my own small way.
Sometime in the near future, i would love to start with an environment rehabilitation project. I was by inspired by David Bamberger's Work at Selah ranch.

• singing
• dancing
• swing dancing
• cooking
• movies
• hiking
• anthropology
• jazz music
• gnosticism
• nature conservation
• carnatic music
• paleoanthropology
• history and culture
• daoism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Wardunna, Tim Croce, Baburaj, Linkin Park, Old Westerns, Old Hindi, ACDC, Carnatic, Ghazals.

Books:
Hávamál, Siddhartha, My experiments with truth, The Meditations, The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, The Hobbit, Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman, No more Mr Nice Guy, Sapiens, Unbearable lightness of being, A Higher Loyalty, The Rational Male, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes.

Films:
Zorba the Greek,Man from the earth, Shawshank Redemption, LOTR, Lagaan, Into the Wild, Amistad, Kite Runner, Kireedam, The Duelists, Indiana Jones

Influencers:
Eske Willerslev, Heinrich Schliemann, Svante Pääbo, Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja, B. R. Ambedkar, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., J.R.R Tolkien

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Digging for dog Skelton's, pretending to be an archaeologist :p
Singing Carnatic Music in the altar of a 17th century Hindu Temple.

Teach, Learn, Share

Introduce you to Carnatic Music, cook some Indian-Italian fusion food, have discussions on philosophy, politics and history.
Maybe go high with music.
I have a soundcloud channel now under the name rohith-raju-2.
I try to replicate 16th Century to 20th Century carnatic music in this profile.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Take you a few nice spots in Dortmund and nearby.

Cook some South Indian and North Indian foods.
An open mind.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Macedonia, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, India