"I love figuring out how things are built to make us feel something."
I don't box myself into neat titles. I write, design, immerse myself in virtual worlds and cinema, practice yoga, read voraciously, and explore first principles. Life is not about choosing a narrow lane; it is all about Experience.
Before I ever penned a manuscript or designed a brand, my world was shaped by a father who lived years ahead of his time. In an era when personal computers were a rare novelty in most households, my father set up a PC specifically for us.
He was an avid gamer and cinema enthusiast. Our home was filled with stacks of CDs, DVDs, and a Game Boy he placed in my hands. He installed those games for me to discover, and I spent countless hours exploring on that PC alone, racing down neon streets in Road Rash, venturing across Kanto in Pokémon FireRed, and immersing myself in virtual worlds. When we played together, it was all about experiencing the gritty, cinematic slow-motion noir of Max Payne.
Together, we watched countless movies across genres, with a particular love for haunted and horror cinema that kept us glued to the screen. That was paired with iconic animated shows on television, including the inventive wonders of Doraemon, the unfiltered humor of Shinchan, and the expansive alien lore of Ben 10. That childhood was not passive entertainment; it was the bedrock of a boundless imagination, visual literacy, and an innate sense of narrative pacing.
That fire has only grown stronger. As a dedicated gamer, exploring everything from retro pixel-art gems to conquering the uncompromising mechanical precision, environmental storytelling, and lore of masterworks like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Elden Ring taught me how atmosphere, challenge, sound design, and player agency converge to create genuine emotion.
While the external world is filled with noise and output, my anchor lies in the profound stillness of inner exploration. That inward journey is deeply rooted in my mother's influence; she was my first guiding light and has been that steady torch ever since, illuminating the values of depth, patience, and quiet strength.
Nurtured by that grounding and guided by the practices of the Isha Foundation, classical yoga is the discipline through which I align body, mind, and energy.
To create art, write stories, or analyze complex systems without understanding the very instrument of perception is incomplete. Yoga provides the clarity to experience life without cognitive distortion, to sit in absolute stillness, and to experience consciousness as an immediate, vibrant reality.
Hand in hand with this is an insatiable appetite for books, exploring voraciously across philosophy, human psychology, advertising, literature, neuroscience, and science. Reading is the ultimate form of mental teleportation: distilling a lifetime of someone else’s refined consciousness into hours of intense contemplation.
"Understanding is not recognizing things. It is recognizing what survives when the things are gone: finding form that survives its embodiment."
Fascinations & Pursuits
The Plethora of Stuff I Involve Myself In
Writing, Novels & Worldbuilding
Crafting immersive speculative fiction and dark atmospheric narratives like Reapers in Masak. Building universes shaped by ancient barriers (The Sphere), looming existential stakes, tactile prose, and the psychological vulnerability of memory.
Kathakaar & Narrative Art
Marrying literary prose with illustrated visual narrative under Kathakaar. Creating conceptual stories like PhD Letters and The Chocolate Jar, where typography, pacing, and emotional cadence merge into tangible art.
Brand Identity & Spatial Experience
Architecting full brand ecosystems from scratch, such as SCOOPERS. Directing everything from packaging, visual tone, and advertising language to physical kiosk spatial UX, Zomato ordering touchpoints, and brand presence.
Design Diaries & Graphic Art
Uncompromising visual exploration in Photoshop, Figma, and typography. Daily design diaries exploring surreal compositions, brutalist poster design, comic-inspired aesthetics, and bold conceptual artwork that pushes creative boundaries.
Virtual Worlds, Gaming & Cinema
Deep study of interactive mechanics, spatial tension, and cinematic worldbuilding. Analyzing how atmospheric lighting, level architecture, camera movement, and audio composition converge to create visceral immersion and unforgettable emotional arcs.
Physics & First-Principles Rigor
Academic foundation at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi & Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College. Questioning every premise, finding the daily parallel, avoiding shortcuts, and treating first principles as the bedrock of thought.
Why move across storytelling, branding, cinema, gaming, music, yoga, design, and physics?
Because gaming and cinema show how virtual spaces evoke real emotion. Music carries the primal rhythm and emotional resonance that moves the soul. Yoga and inner stillness teach how to perceive the world with clarity. Writing gives the language to explore human vulnerability. Design gives abstract ideas a tangible identity. And physics provides first-principles rigor.
When all these streams converge, life ceases to be a checklist of tasks; it becomes an art of pure experience.
Let's Connect & Create
Always open to discussing storytelling, novel crafting, brand identity design, gaming lore, cinema, yogic exploration, or creative ventures.