Everything I do begins with a story. I have never much believed in treating literature, cinema, stage, and the essay as separate pursuits: each just asks the same questions in a different language, and I tend to follow the story rather than the medium.

My artistic journey began in 2010 with an exploration of storytelling beyond the traditional mythological repertoire of Indian Classical Dance Forms. That curiosity resulted in productions such as Soul Cages, Yudh, The Prophet, and Chains: Love Stories of Shadows, which went on to tour fourteen countries, a trajectory I could scarcely have imagined at the time.

Since 2018, I have written and directed thirteen short films spanning philosophical drama, psychological fiction, comedy, and social commentary, including Dvija, Slow Rivers, Arangetram, Filter Coffee, The Colors Trilogy, and The Ghost of the Lighthouse. Somewhere along the way I realised cinema is really just another form of writing, with a great deal more equipment attached.

A Song for Eresha is my first novel, and was also adapted into a feature film, which I directed. It seemed inefficient to stop at one medium.

More recently, I have begun exploring long-form audio through podcasts reflecting on books, cinema, creativity, places, and the strange business of being human.

Born in Madras (now Chennai), I am an alumnus of BITS Pilani (India) and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Storytelling itself I have learned rather more through trial, error, and the occasional artistic catastrophe.

I now live and write in the Nilgiri mountains in South India. The landscape is peaceful; the stories, less so.