I was born in the late 1990s in Nanminda, a village ~20 kilometers from Calicut city. After finishing school, I studied at IIT-Madras for five years, and graduated with a Master's degree in English Studies. I joined IIT-Bombay immediately after my time in Madras.

My PhD work is on discourses of rice in Malayalam literature, in creating the 'Malayali' in the Twentieth century.

I have interned/worked with publications, newspapers, college administration, and online platforms in roles related to copyediting/proofreading/teaching/copywriting and the like.

I play the tabla (trained in it) and a few other percussion instruments (self-taught). I also enjoy cooking (mostly the movements involved in cooking/prepping).

I am also a lover and hater of technology. I think it is fantastic that we can automate a lot of tasks using computers. I also think it is scary how computers have come to mean just a flat screen/interface for apps rather than a tool which you can program to do repetitive tasks. I wish to become more involved in the latter (make the computer do the work) and less involved in the former (do the work myself).

I have had quite high-level of interests in the following at different points of my life: bicycles, surgery, airplanes, painting and sketching, ships, the military, Carnatic music and consumer-level gadgets. I often fantasize about diving, both sky- and water- types, kayaking/floating on water. A lower-level of interest in: typesetting, books (as objects), web-dev.

A few diagnoses include MDD and MDD-MX (depression), GAD (anxiety), and Autism.