An illustrated portrait of Omkar looking towards an open ivory space
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The person behind the studio

Who am I?

An engineer by training, a strategist at work, an artist when something asks to become a painting. Sometimes a writer. Often a traveller. Occasionally, all of them in the same afternoon.

I build systems, get absorbed in colours, follow unfamiliar roads, and ask questions that tend to outlive their original answers. People interest me as much as places: what we believe, what we build, how we love, and why we make being human so complicated.

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Somewhere along the way, “What do I want to become?” made room for another question: “Who is the ‘I’ doing all this becoming?”

That question runs through my writing, my work, and ordinary life. I try to give each pursuit my attention while leaving room for something—or someone—to change my mind. Occasionally, this involves complicating a perfectly ordinary conversation with a question about consciousness.

I take responsibility seriously. Myself, a little less.

There’s usually room for affection, a little mischief, and a strategy nobody asked for.

The flute is missing. The occasional Mahabharata seems to find me anyway.

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