🏃♂️ Fitness & Races
I lift heavy things for fun and run long distances because I hate it. Being in motion isn’t just part of my life, it’s the part that keeps everything else moving. Endorphins > everything else.
Races I’ve recently run:
- Devil’s Circuit — 2022
- Spartan — 2023
- Hyrox — 2025
- TATA Mumbai Marathon — 2024
- Tuffman — 2024
- Wipro 10k — 2024
- Mumbai Half Marathon — 2025
- Wipro Bengaluru Marathon — 2025
A few channels I would recommend (across categories) for fitness in general:
- Jeff Nippard — science-based advice on workout splits, form, and hypertrophy
- FITTR (Jitendra Chouksey) — no-fluff fitness advice (and coaching) tailored for the Indian audience
- Saket Gokhale — pure motivation, with a side of learning
- FitnessFAQs — all the calisthenics wisdom, zero small talk
- KBoges — absolutely to-the-point guidance on form, exercises, and circuits
- Yoga with Adriene — friendly, no-pressure yoga that somehow makes you want to keep coming back
- Breathe with Sandy — guided breathwork for all levels
🎧 Podcasts I Keep Coming Back To
I like listening to learn and sometimes to fill the silence. These are the shows I keep looping back to—for curiosity, business, health and a laugh.
- Huberman Lab — one-stop shop for health & performance
- The Tim Ferriss Show — long-form conversations on craft, experiments, and life design
- Stuff You Should Know — for the curious kid inside
- The Grade Cricketer — two of my favourite topics—cricket and comedy
- Acquired — cinematic deep-dives into how iconic businesses are built
- Lenny’s Podcast — sharp chats on growth, product, and AI with operators who’ve shipped
- Radiolab — big ideas in science, philosophy, and culture told like stories
- This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von — occasional doses of Theo’s hilariously honest (and weird) takes
🥁 Drumming, Singing and Music
I grew up in a family of musicians, so picking up an instrument was inevitable. Started on tabla, landed on drums. I’m also half the singer my father was.
Albums that shaped me:
- Recovery (Eminem)
- 2014 Forest Hills Drive (J. Cole)
- Currents (Tame Impala)
- Supermarket (Logic)
- The Slow Rush (Tame Impala)
- The Eminem Show (Eminem)
- To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar)
- Man on the Moon (Kid Cudi)
- good kid, m.A.A.d city (Kendrick Lamar)
- An Awesome Wave (Alt-J)
- Favourite Worst Nightmare (Arctic Monkeys)
- Come Home the Kids Miss You (Jack Harlow)
- Abbey Road (The Beatles)
- Still Rollin (Shubh)
- Stoney (Post Malone)
- V (Maroon 5)
- ten days (Fred again..)
🎤 Stand-ups
Stand up is my second favourite art poison. Watched Russell Peters once and never looked back.
Here are a few I would recommend:
- Jammin’ in New York (George Carlin) — GOAT material
- You Are All Diseased (George Carlin) — considered cult by most
- Jigsaw (Daniel Sloss) — a not-so-comfortable take on relationships
- Fire in the Maternity Ward (Anthony Jeselnik) — a masterclass on misdirection
- Elephant in the Room (Patrice O’Neal) — hilarious and fearless take on dating
- Me Doing Standup (Norm Macdonald) — deadpan king
- Let It Go (Bill Burr) — old Bill Burr at his best
- Jealous of Sabziwala (Abhishek Upmanyu) — favourite Indian comedian
- Kaksha Gyarvi (Zakir Khan) — heart, humor, and nostalgia
- Sushi (Biswa Kalyan Rath) — genius deconstruction of everyday observations