I'm an architect who believes that architects need to build less and people need to travel more.

What I love the most about traveling is cities - exploring them, unraveling their layers and layers of complexity and history, trying to capture them through sketches or words, or simply day-dreaming about them.

I love orange.

And a good joke.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Through every new place that I explore, I find out more about myself. I love the familiarity of stepping into a new city or town not knowing a soul there and leaving with the wonderful feeling of having made new friends who I might cross paths with again.

I usually stay in hostels or with friends, friends of friends and have hosted numerous travelers. I have recently started using the couch-surfing interface as another experience in affordable travel and meeting new people.

Interests

Apart from obviously lots and lots of travel, I enjoy reading and cycling.

• architecture
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• backpacking
• surfing
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Invisible Cities, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Solo, 1984, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Arrival Cities, The Pillars of the Earth, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, all Calvin and Hobbes

Movies: Gattaca, Bladerunner, The Namesake, Queen, Andaz Apna Apna, Pan's Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction, Before Sunrise, One Fine Day, Amelie

Music: Gomez, Bob Dylan, Ratatat, Regina Spektor, Skavengers, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Dave Matthews, Norah Jones, Susheela Raman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Eating frog legs, learning to ride a motorbike by avoiding collisions and making life-long friends on trains and buses while backpacking solo across South-east Asia in 2011.

Oh, and building winter shelters at breakneck speed in sub-zero temperatures in Ladakh post-floods in 2010.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, France, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India