Having grown up in South India, Rajiv spent some time in Australia, and lived in North India for a few years too. As a current resident of Pune, he thinks he belongs to the world - yet doesn’t really feel at home (read ‘local’) anywhere.

Early education showed him the marvels of science; some further prodding taught him hospitality management; at the end of which he ended up spending way too many nights at one too many call centres (GE, IBM, Dell, and the likes).

Freelance writing provides for this vegan's bread, peanut butter, and jam, as has been the case for around 15 years. Writing has been part of him since school days, although he feels the evolution is clear.

The first book he started writing was to become the second, because one with poetry took precedence. He’s now working on a second book of poems, and the semi-fictional book that was to be his first will follow.