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I am a casualty of military nomadism, changing cities and friends every couple of years within India. This nomadism led me to live in locations that were remote and minimally damaged by human interference. One such city was Siliguri, where I spent two years inside a military base embedded in a serene ecosystem. A twenty-minute walk to the majestic Tista River, surrounded by living creatures and sounds of nature that could defeat Beethoven’s tunes. The quarters we live in were

When I was a child, I never knew how fast I would become twenty-one. In 2016, near my house on the banks of the river Gomti in Lucknow, India, both a graveyard and a cremation ground stood side by side. I biked there every week and sat in the evenings, mesmerized by the vivid scene. Dead bodies were being burned on pyres of oak wood as jubilant sunsets painted the sky, too bright for the dejected family members mourning their lost kin amid the flames. Just across the crematio

Me at the Golden Gate bridge We land in the city of San Francisco, and as my three friends and I cruise through the streets in our Uber, we’re surrounded by massive billboards for startups—everything from agentic AIs to next-gen data solutions. Teslas are everywhere, and I spot my first-ever driverless cab (a Waymo). I can’t help but wonder: how does an engineer even build that kind of stuff? Google's headquarters in SF We were in San Francisco for a week for Buildspace Seaso