The story

No straight line.

In this section I am sharing stories which are not in a straight line just like the life I led. Every chapter was an unmarked deep end. Every decision was an unorthodox road. Not every turn was sweet but every cross section is a story.

2009 - 2018

A lot of deep ends

Graduation in Economics, then a decade of being thrown into the deep end.

fresh2O log painting
2018 - 2021

Fresh2O

A beachside smoothie cafe in Goa I built with my own hands, then lost to a cyclone.

Palms bent in storm wind over a rough grey sea under a heavy monsoon sky
2021

The cyclone

In 2021 a second COVID wave and Cyclone Tauktae took the cafe.

Mist rolling through a forested Himalayan valley under low cloud
2021

Broke, in the Himalayas, on a phone

I went to the mountains and traded crypto on a phone wherever I could find signal.

Pepper posing for the camera
2021

Pepper

Pepper came into life when my wife found him on street, scared and hungry.

2021

A borrowed laptop

October 2021: borrowed money from my parents and a laptop from my girlfriend, and taught myself Solidity from zero.

Monsoon view through trees down to the Goa coast, red tiled roofs below
2018 - 2021

The traveller hostel

Ran a traveller hostel in Goa solo: front desk, ops, marketing, the lot.