CURRENT MISSION

Making a truely great music record!

ABOUT ME

I was born and brought up in Jaipur, the capital of a north-western desert state in India called Rajasthan. I went to a media/mass communication college in Pune, about 300km from the commercial capital of Bombay/Mumbai. I spent the last couple of years in New Delhi.

I decided the best thing I could spend my time doing was learning languages. I'm fluent in German & intermediate in Spanish, Russian & French (in that order) plan to cover them over the next couple of years. That's what keeps me alive and fresh.

My prime area of knowledge is International relations. Love all the arts, with a special place for music. Play the guitar.

PHILOSOPHY

Just get stoned and listen to music. It's serene.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd love to meet people from different countries, get to know their local quirks and slang - hopefully give them a meaningful insight into my own.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

Music, language, literature & politics

• arts
• literature
• politics
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• communications
• international relations
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Film & Cinema - Michael Haneke, Luis Buñuel, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Jean Renoir, Werner Herzog etc.

Music - In order of preference, heavy metal and other metal sub genres, anything and everything under 'rock' actually. Also dig lots of folk, blues, indie & classical. Jazz is good but it's more like a pleasant background rather than something I truly participate in. The only music I can't stand is hip-hop/rap & techno/house or whatever plethora of names people give to that robotic crap.

Books & Literature - Fredrich Nietzsche, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, VS Naipaul and another dozen or so from the cannon. Try to keep my literary tastes conservative, but only because I feel safer sticking with the establishment. More of a non-fiction/news/history reader. Devour all the great weeklies like Economist, Spiegel etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Taken a 14,000 mile, 68-day long round-trip of the United States in my uncle's car. Stayed at a motel for one sole day - otherwise hostels, campsites or about a third of the nights in the car itself. Visited almost every major city of the country, except New York (lol). Started in Providence, Rhode Island, tracing my way through Washington D.C., Nashville, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Albuquerque, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Yellowstone, Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo and finally back to Providence.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Malaysia, Russian Federation, Singapore, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, India