A son of Bombay with a foot in Dubai and an eye on the chain. Builder by name, believer by trade, collector of the well-made.
My father chose the middle name. I have spent the better part of a decade trying to live up to it.
I was raised between marble lobbies and monsoon afternoons in South Bombay — a city that taught me, before anyone else did, that taste is patience. I work in real estate because it sits at the intersection of every interest I have ever held: architecture, money, families, and the long view. I split my time between Earnest House on Nariman Point and a quiet desk in Business Bay, Dubai. Beyond the day, I am a private student of the chain — Bitcoin since 2017, Ethereum since the merge — and a slow collector of the things that age well: leather-bound books, mechanical watches, a small Lagavulin, and conversation.
I do not chase. I attend.
Born and raised in South Bombay. The city of monsoons, marble, and quiet money. I learned early that good taste rarely raises its voice — and that the best rooms are the ones you grow into slowly.
Some men leave home. I learned to widen it. The sea-facing balconies of Nariman Point taught me to look further — across the Arabian Sea, toward a desert that, against every odd, had built itself a skyline.
Dubai is not a posting; it is a position. I keep a desk in Business Bay because I want to be in the room when the next chapter of the East is written — and because I have always preferred cities that are honest about ambition.
I came to crypto in 2017, the way most thinking people did — sceptical, then curious, then quietly convinced. I don't day-trade. I hold. I read whitepapers like other people read novels — for the plot of the future.
Everything I love takes time — buildings, vintages, friendships, conviction. The world is impatient. I am trying very hard not to be.
Not a portfolio of services. Just the things I think about, read about, and quietly study.
The asset class I think in. From colonial Bombay to glass-and-gold Dubai — I read floorplans like other people read poetry.
Dubai isn't escape — it's expansion. A city built for those of us who believe the next century is being written east of the Suez.
Bitcoin since 2017, Ethereum after the merge, and a lot of reading in between. The chain rewards conviction the way real estate rewards patience — slowly, then all at once.
My father chose the middle name. I have spent the better part of a decade trying to live up to it.
For the curious, the friendly, the well-read. Not for solicitation.