“I started making Idlis at Raghavendra Stores maybe two decades ago. Growing up in Udupi, I never had any dreams and my schooling was not even complete. We brothers went directly into the hotel business. I moved to Bombay and started working at a company canteen and my elder brother started working with Raghavendra stores….
“The first 18 years, Bengaluru was a dream city for me. I remember when I was in my third grade, Mysore state had become Karnataka just then. If there was anything, I would go to Hubballi and my dad always told me that he would show me Bengaluru but the first time I came to…
“I was brought up in Mirzapur and the lifestyle I grew up in was very orthodox and I studied till Class 11th there. After that, I was like no, I am not going to study here. I told my parents; I’m not going to study what you guys want me to and when I asked my…
“I had a happy childhood but just that in the school I studied, there was a lot of racism and partiality. I mean they wouldn’t know if it was that or not till, we know it’s that. I would question myself every day as to why I am dark-skinned. What can I do about my…
I started working in Sai Ram Chats near Hymamshu Jyothi in the late 90s or early 2000s and the first chat I served was Bhel Puri. I still remember telling my mom that I will make a living in Bengaluru when I left my hometown, Channarayapatna.”.“The people of Malleshwara and around embraced this kind of…
“I had this weird fascination for the outdoors because I would read so much. I still remember, ours was a middle-class family and I would get cable only two months during my summer vacations. Even with cable, only Doordarshan was the channel. So, for me, outdoors was something big and I remember going to Mysore…
My world was very convenient initially during my school and college days as my school was pretty close to my house. I remember while coming back home, I would come to our juice center, drink one glass of fresh fruit juice, and go back home. It was that lazy.” “This shop was run by my…
“I remember I was in eighth grade when we got a memo saying that there was a cricket trial for the women’s team of our school. I was not too interested in it but one of my cousins who studied with me in the same class made me raise my hand and made sure my…
“I got into counselling as a career after a year’s break from my corporate job. I did my master’s in psychological counselling as well so I have done this for many years. But then, I stumbled onto Improv.” “A lot of things have changed from my 20s to my 30s. One of them is that…
“So, I’ve been on stage for as long as I can remember maybe since the age of 12 or 13. I wanted to do everything related to theatre and that’s how Improv happened. I guess I was always improvising in my head, like making up songs for myself. I didn’t know that I could do…