Hi there! I'm a neurologist with a wide range of interests. This page collects my writings, talks and interviews on various topics which caught my fancy (outside of clinical medicine). I'm looking to connect with like-minded folks from different disciplines.
Much of the work collated here deals with my evolving ideas on the Hindu sciences of mind, such as Tantra, Mantra and Kundalini Yoga.
I believe that the Hindu tradition contains within it detailed records of subjective, first-person explorations of Conscious experience by generations of advanced practitioners.
While modern science primarily comes at the universe from a third-person perspective, Hindu practice, by grounding the Observer squarely at the center, produces strikingly distinct takes on the same phenomena.
It is my belief that these takes are actually closer to the Truth than what can be ascertained through the third-person approach, though the third-person approach has certainly produced its own wonderful achievements.
I occasionally also get into cognition, AI, the history of science, and the long history of religious and cultural exchange across ancient civilizations.
After years of having all this scattered across the internet, I decided to put it all in one place to connect with people who may have shared interests.
Peer-reviewed and preprint work outside direct clinical neurology. For the complete list, see Google Scholar.
Full-length talks and conversations, mostly with research forums focused on Indology, classical Indian thought, and science.
I trained in medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, then completed neurology residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a neurocritical care fellowship at Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital), and a neuroendovascular surgery fellowship at Prisma Health / University of South Carolina.
The writing and talks on this site sit outside that clinical work. A fuller record, including peer-reviewed publications, is on my Google Scholar profile.
Earlier in life: a gold medal at the International Biology Olympiad (Beijing, 2005), attendance at the Indian National Chemistry Olympiad (2005), All India Rank 1 in the CBSE Class XII exams (2005), a National Talent Search Scholarship, and a KVPY scholarship. I'm also on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Day to day, I practice interventional and critical care neurology, treating acute stroke and neurological emergencies via telemedicine and in person.