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Overview
About Me
A musician and a computer vision engineer from India living near Venice. I am working (fully-remote) as an AI engineer in a Spanish start-up. Vegan🌱🌴🌾 Passionate cook (ethnic vegan cuisines from around the world).
Ethnopian🎶🎹 I play the piano and Bansuri (a transverse flute made of bamboo from the Indian subcontinent). Always looking forward to meet interesting people, interesting conversations, unplanned backpack trips, music jam sessions :)
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
To meet interesting people during travel, make interesting connections and share meaningful time together.
Interests
I dream about a sustainable inter-galactic space travel filled with never ending surprises every now and then.
- animal welfare
- vegan
- music
- piano
- trekking
- stargazing
- vegan cooking
- indian classical music
Music, Movies, and Books
🎶🎶🎶I have found eternal "juice" in Indian classical music - Pt. Jasraj, Ustad Amir Khan, Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty, Pt. Pravin Godkhindi, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Vidushi Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ashwin Srinivasan, Pt. Rakesh Chaurasia. I also love jazz (dissonance level 3/10), Cuban music (Buenavista Social Club), Western Classical piano (Chopin, Satie, Debussy), Bossanova and Forro(Dominguinhos) music, Tunisian music (Anuouar Brahem), Turkish Maqam, Yanni, Taksim Trio, Amr Diab, Flamenco...
📓📓📓I love sci-fi books. The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, Contact, Cosmos by Carl Sagan. Other favorite authors are Dan Brown, J. K. Rowling, Amish Tripathi, Robert Ludlum, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney Sheldon.
🎬🎬🎬I love all the Christopher Nolan movies - Interstellar is my favorite. Space travel+ extra terrestrials are my dream topics (in the sense that I dream about them in sleep)
What I Can Share with Hosts
Recipes from Indian vegan cuisine, live music performance, chess, massage, interesting conversations!
Countries I’ve Visited
Andorra, Germany, India, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, Spain
Countries I’ve Lived In
India, Italy, Singapore, Spain