And am on the team because …

“I like to participate in increasing awareness of TA as a powerful tool for – mental health, personal and professional self-care and transformation.“

Some of my ‘you-ness’ for you… “Currently I’ll say interviewing folks / having online conversations. I write and am good at conceptualising, creating and curating content and executing social media marketing campaigns and I would like to bring these skills to the SAATA Newsletter initiatives too.”

And my pursuit of happiness involves…

“Early mornings, hot tea made by me to my exact taste (in the absence of my boyfriend who makes it perfectly), hot baths, loose clothes, intercity drives solo or with an individual who will not ask for the wheel unless I offer, reading fiction or true stories unrelated to anything I’m studying or working on, exercise – swimming, long brisk walks, long slow jogs, skipping and lots of stretching, writing anything that comes to my mind in my private notebook, continuously writing till I feel I’ve let all thoughts out for the moment, conversations about feelings, cooking for people I love and then watching them eat, also having an alcoholic beverage as I cook… this somehow always makes my food taste better and I’m not much of a drinker otherwise anymore (I haven’t figured out the “why”). My comfort food is Avakai / Gongura-Red chilli pickle with piping hot white rice and ghee, followed by curd rice with lime pickle. In the absence of either, it’s spicy desi potato wafer and fresh lime soda salt / Thumbs Up…!”

And some of mine are…

“Making PowerPoint presentations (I enjoy putting together the content and make the presentation but not making the PPT slides itself!), video editing, graphic design and the likes, bringing elaborate conversations about Mathematics in the understanding of music (I get that they are inseparable but I don’t like to over-intellectualise it as long as I get my taalam, swaram and pitch right, that’s enough for me).”