raamesh gowri raghavan

I'm someone, anyone; I might be Bachir Gemayel:

among guns and shells a Maronite; between powers a puppet -

a pawn in a Great Game; weak, then powerful;

alive, then dead; somebody, anybody, nobody.

I might be someone else, I might be you, I might be a third person;

I might as well be Bachir Gemayel.

This I know: I can write scintillating copy, strategise and help bring a brand to market in memorable ways with 30 months of experience; I can also do PCR and sequence DNA if necessary (that's 7 years of experience); I can read an epigraph with some difficulty, operate a microscope, teach a classroom practically anything (given I've taught French, Sanskrit epigraphy, the taxonomy of ants, Danish colonial possessions in South Asia, and copywriting). I aim to be a poet-novelist of some Nobelity, to be creative director in a decent firm, and to be remembered with tears centuries from now.

This I tell: Raamesh Gowri Raghavan moonlights as an award-winning copywriter by day and daylights as an award-wanting poet* by night, and sandwiches archaeology, running a literary club, running a literary journal, the occasional trek, some peer counseling for suicide prevention, and learning languages in between.

I think I am funny, but friends vehemently disagree.

In a nutshell: writing anything, imagining, epigraphy, DNA sequencing... doing what I effing please**