Hello, Bonjour, Namaste

I was born in Bombay, India and immigrated to Toronto, Canada (poem) in the early 1990s. In January 2008, I moved to Montréal with my partner Marc-Antoine. I have also lived in Ottawa and Vancouver. I spent the first year and half in Montréal learning French intensively (blog entry), volunteering with Francophone non-profits and freelancing. I now work as a communications consultant and am putting together a book of short stories.

From 2005-2007, I worked for a Tanzanian organization that promotes education rights and democracy. This experience is captured in a blog.

I'm an extrovert who likes socializing and trying out new things. For balance I turn to yoga and meditation. I enjoy evocative fiction and provocative non-fiction. I love nature (-20C°, plus wind-chill, tests my ardour a bit!) and believe that we can and should live as if nature mattered.

A passion for travel, and my work, took me to interesting corners of the world, such as Manali, India (article), Dogon country, Mali (article), and Safari land, Tanzania (Safari website).