About

At the beginning of a Turkish movie "Sevimli Tehlikeli", a small girl refuses to accept a narration as a Story if the narration doesn't start with "Once upon a time". So here it goes...

Once upon a time, I was born in Hyderabad, the emerging capital of Indian cinema, to a family that has love-hate relationship with cinema. Love for the art form; Hate for the business of it. So for the love of it, my mom sent me to music classes; father sent me to dance classes; and now I do theatre and cinema.

And because of the hate, everyone ensured that I studied well.
Long story short, I studied Mechanical Engineering at NITK Surathkal and Public Policy with the UPSC exam. I developed interest in using technology for public problems. I'm happy that I found opportunities in using data technologies to solve problems in Urbanisation, Flood management, Air pollution and Social science research in general. Now, I'm testing waters in the Cinemas. Please wish me luck :)

I've travelled wide ideologically - from Right to Left. I learned that no one is perfect, which seems very obvious now. I stopped taking ideological stances and try to maintain an independent thought - People from all ideologies do give me material in that regard.

I'm an existentialist. I believe that life has no god-given purpose or meaning. Individuals should create their own meaning, which might appear meaningless to others. If money is the measure of value, freedom is the measure of life. I try to maximise freedom for a better life and most of my decisions reflect this.

If you're still keen to know more about me, I asked myself a lot of questions -- QnA
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