What I'm into.
Mostly Bengaluru-based riding on the CB300R, city loops, early-morning runs out to the outskirts, and the occasional longer trip when the road and the weekend cooperate.
The CBR500 is on the radar too. Riding for me is the same lesson as risk management: respect what you don't know yet, prep the obvious, and keep your inputs smooth.
Long-time fan, I watch a lot of stand-up, go to live shows whenever there's something good in town, and I'm slowly writing my own material on the side.
The plan is to take it to an open mic at some point. For now it's mostly notes app fragments, half-written bits and a healthy respect for how hard the craft actually is.
Three teams I follow through thick and very, very thin: Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL, Chelsea FC in the Premier League, and the Chicago Bulls in the NBA. Add F1 weekends and chess on the side.
Bangalore kid raised on Chinnaswamy nights, cricket is the default. Football and basketball are the long-term loyalties; F1 and chess are the strategic puzzles I can't stop watching.
Heavy rotation of rap and indie, high energy on study days, something slower for the long walks. Equal parts Western and Indian artists.
[Add a couple of current favourites later, desert-island albums, the song that always brings you back to a specific moment.]
National-level quizzer and quizmaster through the Christ University Quiz Association, a few years of weekly quizzes, inter-college circuits and running events on stage.
Quizzing is where I learned how to think on my feet, host a room and chase a niche topic into the ground. It's also why I still enjoy collecting strange facts.
Current rotation: The Rookie, The Gentleman, and The Big Bang Theory on repeat. Comfort shows beat prestige TV most evenings.
For films I lean Malayalam cinema, storytelling that doesn't waste your time, character work over spectacle. Subtitled and unbothered.
Less about charts, more about consequences. I'm interested in how crypto and prediction markets reshape price discovery and how those second-order effects land on real economies and societies.
Where finance, technology and incentives collide is, for me, the most interesting place to be reading right now, and it feeds straight back into the risk and analytics work.