I'm a Civil Engineer passionate about sustainable building practices. My work encompasses slum rehabilitation, disaster resistant structures and alternative building materials and technologies. I am a voracious reader and follow football passionately.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to meet new people; and explore different cultures and traditions. I think staying with the locals is the perfect way to get to know about a city or a village.

Interests

I have been a massive Chelsea fan since I was a kid. I read anything I can lay my hands upon. I like to understand the places I travel to by the way they build their homes, the food they eat and the way they dress.

• literature
• architecture
• live music
• sports
• football
• sustainability

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Leonard Cohen, Alkaline Trio, Yellowcard, Young The Giant, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tinariwein, Enter The Haggis, Snow Patrol, Eluvietie, Apolcalyptica, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Police, The Killers, Prateek Kuhaad, Kishore Kumar

Movies - Children of Paradise, Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, The Great Dictator, The Inglorious Basterds, Behind Enemy Lines, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln, 12 Angry Men, Dallas Buyers Club, Castaway, Forrest Gump, Evan's Childhood, The Pianist, The Help, 12 Years A Slave

Books - Catcher In The Rye, A Thousand Splendid Sons, Disgrace, My Name Is Red, Interpreter of Maladies, Emperor of All Maladies, 1984, Animal Farm, The Inheritance of Loss, Kite Runner, Honour, Persepolis, The Children of Jacaranda Tree

Countries I’ve Visited

Nepal

Countries I’ve Lived In

India