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From Zero to 60 Kilometres: My First Bike for Brain Health Ride on a Trek Marlin 7

Latest StoryMay 31, 2026

From Zero to 60 Kilometres: My First Bike for Brain Health Ride on a Trek Marlin 7

A week ago, I didn't own a bike. On Sunday morning, I found myself pedaling 60 km on Toronto's Gardiner Expressway and DVP alongside thousands of riders at Bike for Brain Health.

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📍 Dehradun, India

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20 years across the world

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2003–09Dehradun, India

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Engineering studies & graduation

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What I'm building now

MySleepyTales

AI-powered bedtime stories for kids. Personalized, imaginative, and crafted to help children drift off to dreamland.

Fixit

Form UX analysis and fixing tool. Because life's too short for broken forms that frustrate users.

Grip3D

3D visualization and immersive experiences. Bringing depth and dimension to digital interactions.

Hospitality / Art04

Musee Living

From Himalayan retreats to art cafes and boutique hotels — hospitality with soul. 6 properties and counting.

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My First Travel Trailer Adventure: Towing a Camper with a Jeep Wrangler 4xe to Bon Echo Provincial Park

Learning to tow a travel trailer, manage propane, water systems, and waste disposal — all in one weekend at one of Ontario's most beautiful parks.

5 Steps to Ship Your First AI App — From Vercel Playground to AWS Production

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5 Steps to Ship Your First AI App — From Vercel Playground to AWS Production

How I built MySleepyTale on Vercel, hit a latency wall, and moved to AWS with CloudFront + Lambda + S3 — a no-BS guide for first-time builders who ship on weekends.

I Built an Artemis II Live Tracker — and Hosted a Watch Party

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I Built an Artemis II Live Tracker — and Hosted a Watch Party

NASA's first crewed lunar mission since Apollo deserved more than a YouTube stream. So I built a real-time Artemis II tracker with 3D trajectory, live telemetry, and hosted a watch party.

Be remora to a shark, and be OK even if nobody invites.

Entrepreneurship Lessons5 min read

Be remora to a shark, and be OK even if nobody invites.

This clip taught me the business lesson no MBA will. The crumbs from big contracts are where real companies are born — if you're humble enough to eat them.

Nobody builds a hotel in a place with No Road. I did it anyway.

Building Musee8 min read

Nobody builds a hotel in a place with No Road. I did it anyway.

From a hostel room canteen to a Himalayan StonedAge TOSH, to Dehradun's first art cafe — the story of building Musee Living, one impossible space at a time.

The cameras were always watching. Now they're understanding with AI.

GenAI Tools & Use Cases6 min read

The cameras were always watching. Now they're understanding with AI.

How AI video intelligence is turning passive surveillance into a live, searchable network — and what that means for investigation, safety, and the future of security.

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