I did not always have an easy answer to the question “Who am I?” From my current purview, all I can say is that there is no easy answer, moreover, the “I” always keeps changing with my experiences. At this moment, I perhaps can describe myself in the following way.
I am a curious, kind, transparent and emotionally sensitive soul who is mostly skeptical of everything. I perpetually assume that I do not know enough of myself, and take - quite literally - everything with a grain of salt.
Professionally, I am a physicist doing his PhD in quantum computing - my research involves in understanding the theory of superconducting circuits and its applications. Otherwise, I love to play pool, read, draw and spend time with my friends. I engage in conversations of all kinds and especially drawn towards the ones which allow self-exploration and the coexistence of dialectic ideals.
This a miscellaneous list of things which are close to my heart, or have greatly influenced me.
TV/Movies/Pop culture:
- Attack on Titan
- Before Trilogy
- Movies of Paul Mescal
- The End of the F***ing World!
Music/specific songs:
- Radiohead (Let Down), Elliot Smith, Nick Drake (In the Morning)
- Big Theif (Vegas), Boy Genius (Afraid of Heights), Adrienne Lenker
- “Junior-Junior” by SP Balasubramanian
- “Kahin dur jab din dhal jaye” by Mukesh
- “Alag Aasmaan” by Anuv Jain
Books:
- Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
- On Love and Loneliness - Jiddu Krishnamurti
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- All about Love - Bell Hooks
- Prisoners of Childhood - Alice Miller
- The Undiscovered Self - Carl Jung
- Acts of God - Kanan Gill
- Flowers of Buffoonery - Osamu Dazai
- The Origins of Totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt