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By day I work in the oil & gas industry in Kuwait. By night I write novels, study the psychology of ambition, and share frameworks for living well — in English and Malayalam. Author of the upcoming novel The Deserving Devil.
Once a week, I share one idea from psychology or philosophy, one lesson from the migrant life between Kerala and the Gulf, and one thing worth reading. Written for people building a life far from where they started. Free, always.
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Novels and stories shaped by farms, migration, and the question of what we deserve.
Start herePsychology, philosophy, and timeless frameworks — Ikigai to Chanakya — for modern life.
Start hereHonest reflections on building a career, family, and identity in the Gulf.
Start hereWhat I'm learning about the craft of fiction, publishing, and finding your voice.
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A philosophical novel of power, prayer, and consequence — tracing one timeless mechanism of ambition across civilizations, from ancient boons to the age of AI. What do we ask for, what does it cost, and who finally pays?
Stories rooted in the faith, labor, and quiet life of Kerala.
A novella about the places we ruin, the marks we leave, and the people we become — a quiet reckoning with what ambition and distance cost the land, and the self.
A literary novel of home and departure, rooted in a Kerala village and the family who never quite leave it behind. Set against the 2006 monsoon flood and a fracture that shakes a small town years later, it follows one boy's coming of age through the people, places, and partings that shape him — and the pull of a home he keeps returning to, and leaving, again.
I grew up in Vazhakulam, a farming village in Kerala's Ernakulam district, where my father worked the land and stories were the evening's only luxury. That world — its labour, its faith, its quiet philosophies — is the soil everything I write grows from.
"Every story I write begins in that soil."
The road since has run through Tirupur, Bangalore, Dubai, and now Kuwait, where I've spent years in the oil & gas industry while writing before dawn and after dusk. I write about migration because I've lived it, and about power and purpose because the Gulf teaches you both, fast.
If any part of this resonates with your own journey — welcome. Everything I share here is free, and I hope some of it is useful.
Read my full storyAn animated scene showing the journey from Vazhakulam, Kerala, to Kuwait: two glowing markers connected by a dashed flight path, with a small plane travelling between them, passing Tirupur, Bangalore and Dubai along the way.