Nepal → Nashville · est. systems-thinker

Risk, data, and the
systems underneath.

Belmont by day, pivoting into risk consulting. South Asia geopolitics in my notes, a guitar in the off-hours, and an Obsidian vault that quietly became a second brain. This isn’t a résumé — it’s the garden.

builder
polyglot
diaspora
data
guitar

Expressionist painted portrait of Pranish Bhagat in a suit — self, in paint

Now

what’s live this month — updated by hand, like a /now page should be.

working toward

A move into risk consulting — finished 16/16 Coursera courses across international relations, data, and music.

reading

Curfewed Night — Basharat Peer, on Kashmir under counter-insurgency.

building

Plain-Python tools that run my life: a calendar sync, a finance dashboard, and this site. No frameworks.

spinning up

Hosting every World Cup 2026 match that kicks off after 6pm — an open house on a schedule.

picking up

Arabic and Spanish, slowly, the way I pick up most things — by building a system around them.

The Garden

Notes from an ongoing vault — interlinked, half-finished on purpose. Not a blog. Hover a seed for a gloss; the accented ones open a full note. Read the published notes →

South Asia & geopolitics

Where I spend most of my reading. The region as a system of pressures — migration, borders, power.

Data & risk

The toolkit for the pivot — turning messy reality into decisions you can defend.

Earth & deep time

Geology as the longest-running system of all. Continents are just slow news.

india–eurasia collision

Sound & culture

How music and meaning move across borders — and how brands quietly engineer who we are.

gender contamination

The same garden, as a map — drag a node, hover to read

The Shelf

Narrative non-fiction, written from inside the cultures being covered. War, post-colony, the human scale of big forces.

read

No Good Men Among the LivingAnand Gopal
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin

queued

Curfewed NightBasharat Peer
Maximum CitySuketu Mehta
Walking with the ComradesArundhati Roy
The Last GirlNadia Murad
China’s Second ContinentHoward French

Sound

The other half. When it’s music, I go by mylesdoodles — my other alter ego.

mylesdoodles is sort of my virtual handle — the alter ego that owns anything I make with sound. Mostly that’s me and a guitar, no setlist, no polish. Underneath I’m chasing roots: the blues, the history of rock, the Sufi–Nepali exchange that keeps surfacing in my notes.

guitar
blues
classic rock
sufi
nepali
improv