I write about power, faith, and the long road away from home.

It began on a farm in Vazhakulam

I grew up in Vazhakulam, a farming village in the Ernakulam district of Kerala. My father worked the land — the rhythm of our days was set by rain, harvest, and the slow patience that farming teaches you. We did not have much, but the evenings were rich with talk: neighbours on the veranda, old arguments about right and wrong, stories told and retold until they felt like family.

That world is the soil everything I write grows from. Its labour, its faith, its small daily philosophies about what a person deserves and what they owe — I keep returning to all of it on the page, whether I mean to or not.

The road outward

Like so many from Kerala, my life became a series of departures. Tirupur first, then Bangalore, then Dubai, and finally Kuwait. Each move taught me something the last one couldn't: how a city can swallow you, how money changes people, how faith bends but rarely breaks, how an entire generation builds a life in one country while their heart stays in another.

I have spent years now in the oil & gas industry in the Gulf — a world of contracts, deadlines, and hard men doing hard work far from their families. It is not where you'd expect to find a novelist. But it gave me something a writing degree never could: a front-row seat to ambition and its cost, watched up close, every single day.

Why I write

I write because the migrant life is full of stories that go untold — the quiet sacrifices, the long phone calls home, the strange loneliness of doing well in a place that will never quite be yours. And I write about power and philosophy because the Gulf teaches you both, fast: who has it, who wants it, what people will trade to get it, and what it finally costs them.

My upcoming novel, The Deserving Devil, grew out of one question I couldn't put down — what do we ask for, what does it cost, and who finally pays? It traces that single mechanism of ambition across civilizations, from ancient boons to the age of AI.

What you'll find here

This site is where I share my fiction, my thinking, and honest reflections on building a life far from where you started. Everything I publish here is free. If any part of this resonates with your own journey — welcome. I'm glad you're here.