Student of software engineering and economics at Delhi Technological University.
Three places made me. Tap a city to visit it.
I was born in Patna and brought up in Siliguri, at the foot of the Himalayas. My cultural roots lie in Bhagela, Rajasthan, within the Marwadi community, a people known for enterprise and for keeping home alive wherever they go.
Growing up between these places taught me to move easily between cultures and languages. Today I’m in Delhi, learning how technology and economics fit together.
Software Engineering with a double major in Economics.
Somewhere ahead is a classroom far from home: a master’s at one of the world’s leading universities, and after it, work that earns its place in the real world. Distance, I think, sharpens the questions you ask.
Economics studies how people choose and how value moves between them. Technology rebuilds the tools by which both happen. I am drawn to the seam where the two meet, because I believe technology will hold a definite role in the economics of the years ahead, and that the most interesting work will live at their intersection.
Where I was born.
Patna sits on the southern bank of the Ganga, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Long ago it was called Pataliputra, a capital of empires. The river is the first thing you notice, wide and unhurried, and it seems to hold the city’s memory.
Among its landmarks is the Golghar, a beehive-shaped granary built in 1786, with a staircase curling around its dome. A city of old stories and busy lanes, it is the place my own story begins.
Where I grew up.
Siliguri lies in the plains at the foot of the Himalayas, where the land begins to tilt upward into hills. On clear mornings the mountains show themselves in the distance, and tea gardens roll out in green rows around the town.
Known as a gateway to the North East, Darjeeling and Sikkim, it is a city of travellers, traders and many languages. Growing up here taught me to feel at home in the space between places.
Where I study now.
Delhi is a city of layers: monuments from many centuries stand beside wide avenues and crowded markets. It moves fast and rarely stops, and that restlessness feels like part of its charm.
Here at Delhi Technological University I study software engineering alongside economics. The city is a good teacher: every street shows people making trades, choices and systems work, all at once.
My cultural roots.
My family’s roots trace back to Bhagela in Rajasthan, and to the Marwadi community. Marwadis are known across India for trade and enterprise, and for carrying home with them wherever they settle: food, festivals, language and a sense of family that stretches over many cities.
The dots above echo bandhani, the tie-dye of Rajasthan, where thousands of tiny knots become one pattern. It is how I think of heritage: small things, carried carefully, that add up to who you are.