About.

I am a global citizen formed in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, to parents from Southern Karnataka, in India. I think since I was a teenager I was interested in global themes. Around seventeen, I remember wanting to tell people I wanted to write a collection of stories for each country in the world, telling a myriad of tales of things happening there. As I started traveling – starting from when I studied abroad in Spain – this coalesced into one global novel. I’m still in the process of writing our this book, but hope you are all willing to be there with me (virtually) as I work on it, and myself.

I have lived all over the world. I’ve written about my homes in the My Homes section of the page, but if you had to ask for it in short form, I would consider my list Jonesboro, Mysore, New York, Madrid, Lisboa, Sao Paulo, Cuzco, Mombasa, Tokyo, Istanbul, Yogyakarta, Shanghai, Moscow , Mumbai, Paris, Cairo, and Melbourne. If you had to ask me to pick one to live in for the rest of my life, it would probably be Bombay, but I’m open to the fact that I’m always changing, and will most likely want to be elsewhere after forty.

I currently speak English, Kannada, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Turkish, Indonesian, Hindi, Japanese, French, Russian, and Arabic to various levels of proficiency. I’ve tried to write a little bit in all of them, but mostly am an English-language writer. You can see a bit more about my projects in the My Books section.

I am an naastika by choice. I believe mostly in the strange serendipity that comes with the chaos of our world.