नमस्तेnepali

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.

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 deliberate pivot into risk consulting — teaching myself the foundations, international relations and data, the way I learn everything: from first principles.

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 Shelf

A wide net — geopolitics, essays from inside the struggle, fiction that crosses borders. Standing rule: voices from within the world they describe.

geopolitics & history

No Good Men Among the LivingAnand Gopal
Destiny DisruptedTamim Ansary
From Third World to FirstLee Kuan Yew
Deng Xiaoping & the Transformation of ChinaEzra Vogel

essay & memoir

The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates
The Will to Changebell hooks
…I Learned in a Chinese RestaurantCurtis Chin

fiction

On Earth We’re Briefly GorgeousOcean Vuong
SiddharthaHermann Hesse
The Map of Salt and StarsZeyn Joukhadar
The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini

next upCurfewed Night · Maximum City · Walking with the Comrades

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.

↑ the tail end of a mylesdoodles take

guitar
blues
classic rock
sufi
nepali
improv