Profile

I grew up and lived in New Delhi till age 17, a city with a population of 20 million

So now I quite enjoy living in Scotland, where the total population is only 5 million ie one-fourth that of Delhi!

I trained as a software/IT person in my undergrad, but I really liked teaching, especially Mathematics. So I became a mathematics teacher for a while, helped illustrate a textbook for middle school, and did a degree in Educational Psychology.

This is Shunya (Sanskrit for “Zero”) the character I created for the Mathematics textbook

I sing for fun but I can’t sight-read sheet music so I can only sing what I can memorise. I was in the chorus of a musical about Penicillin in the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 2018, called The Mould that Changed the World!

Poster for The Mould that Changed the World

In my spare time, I sometimes conduct walking tours of Edinburgh, talking about the fabulous science and scientists associated with this city, including Dolly the Sheep, John Napier (who invented logarithms), Sophia Jex-Blake (the first woman to study medicine in the UK), and James Clerk Maxwell (the creator of the first colour photograph).

Me, leading an unsuspecting group through the graveyard from where bodies were dug up for the Edinburgh Med School