Where Curiosity Began

I wasn't born in a big city surrounded by technology. I was born in a small village called Peddamadi, near the Odisha border in Andhra Pradesh. It's such a small place that, for many years, you couldn't even find it properly on Google Maps.

Almost my entire childhood was spent there. From primary school to intermediate, nearly fifteen years of my education happened in the same village. It wasn't a place filled with opportunities or the latest technology, but it gave me something much more valuable—a childhood full of curiosity.

My father is an RMP doctor who has spent years travelling between nearby villages, treating patients and helping families with basic medical care. My mother runs a small neighborhood shop, where almost everyone in the village knows her by name. Growing up, I also had my two sisters, who were always incredibly supportive and looked after me, especially when I was busy creating chaos.

And yes... I was definitely a handful. I wasn't the quiet kid who sat still. I was always running around, climbing things, asking endless questions, and usually finding new ways to test my parents' patience. Looking back, I'm pretty sure I gave them more headaches than peaceful days.

Toys never stayed toys

Some kids played with toys. I wanted to know how they worked.

Whenever I received a remote-control car, a robot, or even a small toy airplane, I would happily play with it for a while. But eventually curiosity always won. I'd take it apart piece by piece, spread all the components across the floor, and try to understand what every gear, motor, and wire actually did.

Sometimes I'd even combine pieces from different broken toys to build something completely new. It rarely worked—but that didn't matter. Without realizing it, I was already thinking like an engineer.

Falling in love with technology

Technology fascinated me long before I knew what programming was.

My first mobile phone experience wasn't even my own phone. It belonged to my father—a small Celkon keypad phone. I spent hours playing the built-in games and pressing every button just to see what would happen.

Later, when 3G internet finally arrived, it felt like magic. The signal in our village wasn't exactly reliable. Whenever I wanted a webpage to load, I'd walk outside, stretch my arm into the air while holding the phone, and hope those tiny network bars would become just strong enough to open a website. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn't.

Back then, waiting several minutes for a single webpage felt completely normal. Yet every successful page felt like discovering something new.

The phone everyone wanted

One of my favorite childhood memories happened whenever my uncle visited from Mumbai. He owned our family's very first touchscreen smartphone. For us, it wasn't just a phone—it was the most exciting gadget we'd ever seen.

All my cousins would gather around at my grandmother's house, passing the phone from one person to another, carefully taking turns to play games before handing it over to the next person. We laughed, argued over whose turn it was, and somehow managed to spend an entire afternoon with a single phone. Those moments are still some of my happiest childhood memories.

The first computer

The first computer I ever touched wasn't at home. It was at my school.

I still remember staring at the monitor, fascinated by how clicking a mouse could make things happen instantly. Everything about computers felt magical.

That curiosity only grew stronger over time. Whenever I had free time, I found myself exploring phones, computers, software, or anything electronic I could get my hands on. My teachers noticed that curiosity and encouraged me to keep learning, even when I spent more time experimenting than following the usual path.

Growing up with changing dreams

Like many children, my dream job changed almost every year. Sometimes I wanted to become a doctor like my father. Then I dreamed about becoming an astronaut. Later it was the civil services. Then software engineering. Then medicine again.

My childhood was a constant cycle of discovering something new and imagining myself doing it one day. Looking back, none of those dreams were really about the job itself. They all came from the same place: I simply loved learning how things worked.

A Bigger World Than My Village

Outside school, I spent countless hours exploring the digital world. Temple Run • Subway Surfers • Angry Birds • Free Fire.

Those games introduced me to technology, but the internet opened an even bigger world. I watched funny videos, explored places I'd never seen before, followed food channels, learned random facts, and slowly became fascinated by how people built things online.

As I grew older, movies became another source of inspiration. I loved the Marvel universe, and Christopher Nolan's films completely changed the way I looked at storytelling, imagination, and technology.