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Overview

  • 3 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi (Marāṭhī); learning Spanish
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Filmmaker, Writer, Musician, Traveller
  • Mass Media (Journalism)
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About Me

Hello! I am a journalist turned filmmaker, and also a writer, musician, and traveler. I'm currently in North Europe - Norway to be specific - directing and shooting a hitchhiking documentary. I'll be in Stockholm from tonight until Feb 26.

We all have our reasons to love travel. Travel was the first medium that enabled me to get out of my head and get into the moment. A sustained, multi-sensory antidote to the everyday chatter of thoughts, doubts, worries, and what not. A deep dive into the blue sea. Immerse. Don’t think. Feel. Out of the shell and into the unknown. Travelling has changed me for the better. A greatest hits album of moments and experiences created in a new land, under a new sky, shaping a new, evolving mind. I feel travel encompasses everything that life aspires to be.

In this life, of late, I have been on a journey of awakening; inner more than outer. How does traveling the world (outer) feel when one has painstakingly, over the years, tried making peace with the self (inner)? When experiencing the joy of the journey is the entire purpose. When the destination is only a bonus. I’m in love with this process of self-discovery through the illuminating prism of travel. I’m in love with the experience of just being, from this moment to the next and so on. And I’m happy to meet you, whichever moment brings this crossing of our paths for the good. It’s all good.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet travellers, wanderers, artists, storytellers; basically anybody who celebrates life. To connect and share. To become friends.

Interests

Best shared when we meet

  • writing
  • photography
  • vegan
  • music
  • beaches
  • travel
  • films
  • videography

Music, Movies, and Books

Can't. Even. Begin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Too many to share... Here are some:

An evening-night walk through the jagged cliffs of Cinque Terre.
Staying with an indigenous tribe in the mountains of Northwest Vietnam with near-zero communication.
Floating about in the glass-clear Mediterranean on the sunken island, Southern tip of Turkey.
Watching the morning sunlight stretch across the entire city of Rome.
Scuba diving with whale sharks in the Maldives.
And just this month, February 2026, hitchhiking across Sweden and Norway in brutally cold conditions.

Teach, Learn, Share

See below

What I Can Share with Hosts

From storytelling and making videos to deep discussions on philosophy/spirituality. From films and music to veganism and minimalism. From playing the guitar and singing to just hearing out someone patiently and without judgment.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Maldives, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Qatar

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