About

I’d been a consultant with IBM for ten years. My job took me around the world- lived in Munich, Tokyo, Helsinki, San Francisco, Montreal, Singapore, Chicago, New York.

Now, fate got me to do what I like doing most, which is writing and making music. I hope to be able to live up to my dream-to make a living doing what I love to do, and I wish the same for you. I am using this website as a medium and I promise continuously new and improved content.

It is perhaps important to live a meaningful life, not just hand to mouth. I am compelled to steer this life that I’ve been thrown into in a meaningful direction, even when so much inertia steers me otherwise.

Novels give us an inside view into a society and its psychology, often better than any sociological or historical scholarly work. They remind us of the universality of human suffering. They make us understand ourselves better. We are swept away when we come across a character that we identify with so much. Such a character often appears in stories from a completely different culture and era, reminding us that even when we feel alone in our plight, we are part of a collective human consciousness, going back millennia. We have more in common than our ethnic, religious, cultural and political differences would have us otherwise believe. When another person expresses the way we feel better than we are able to do ourselves, we feel an intimate connection with humanity.

Novels change us. Books expose our hypocrisy and corruption, start revolutions. Writers and poets in the past and today are no strangers to prisons and torture. I believe that the pen will always be mightier than the sword, or nuclear weapons. We are mortal but our ideas are not, and only penetrable by other superior ideas.

Fiction is an intimate connection between the writer and the reader, creating new worlds out of thin air, tickling the imagination, painting beauty with words. And words are nothing less than thoughts and feelings. I don’t know why I get so enamored by a phrase that I am compelled to interrupt a smooth sail over the pages of a book, stop in mid water, reflect on the beauty, and write the phrase down. I am a collector, if you will, of prose and verse.

I have an urge to express. Very simply, I like to tell stories and I aim to get better at telling them.

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