Madhubani, Bihar
Born and raised in Madhubani, a small city in Bihar that most people know as the birthplace of Mithila painting. For those of us who grew up there, art isn't hanging on museum walls; it's painted on the walls of homes, drawn on floors during festivals, woven into fabric and lives.
My mother and grandmother both practiced Mithila art, intricate, two-dimensional work with bold borders, nature motifs, and mythological scenes passed down through generations. Growing up watching them work, I learned that creativity is not a hobby. It is a way of seeing.
A House Full of Art
My grandfather was a remarkable flute player, not professionally, but in the way that matters more: passionately, for the love of it. He would play in the evenings and I would sit nearby, not knowing those sounds were shaping something in me.
Our home had the energy of a small cultural institution, someone was always practicing, performing, or creating. There was never pressure to be an artist. But there was also never any doubt that art was serious, worthy of your whole self.
I was the one who eventually picked up a brush. Then charcoal. Then a stylus.
Between Two Worlds
As a kid, I split my time between the paintbrush and whatever gadget I could get my hands on. Bihar in the late 90s wasn't exactly Silicon Valley, but curiosity doesn't need infrastructure.
I was fascinated by how things worked: computers, programs, the weird magic of making a machine do exactly what you wanted. It felt like Mithila painting, you set up a structure, a grammar, rules, and within those rules, you create.
Art and technology were never opposites for me. Both are systems of expression. I just happened to eventually get paid for one of them.
LPU, Punjab
I studied Computer Science and Engineering at Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar. I also took a minor in Game Development, which tells you everything about what I actually cared about: building interactive, visual experiences.
College was where my artistic instincts and technical interests finally fused. I started building on the web because it felt like the most accessible canvas I'd ever seen. No gallery needed.
I left with a degree, a conviction that design and engineering belong together, and an unhealthy interest in how pixels actually work.
Still Painting
I still make art. Not as often as I should, but it never really stopped.
Acrylic and oil when I want texture and permanence. Charcoal when I want speed and rawness, to sketch without commitment. Digital when I want the freedom to undo and iterate, which, honestly, is where the engineer in me feels most at home.
Art keeps me from being only an engineer. Engineering keeps me from being precious about art. The balance is the point.
“Sometimes I spend three hours painting something that looks nothing like what I intended. That's usually the best outcome.”
Mumbai. Code. Building.
Based in Mumbai, as different from Madhubani as a city can be. I love both places for completely different reasons.
Seven years of building web products at scale. React, Next.js, TypeScript, the tools change but what I'm chasing stays constant: software that actually works for the people using it.
What excites me most right now is AI, not as a replacement for anything, but as a new kind of material. You learn its properties, its quirks, and figure out what you can make that couldn't exist before.
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