Personal — Preeti Vijayakumar

Game nights

Game nights are how I see my friends: a new game borrowed from the library every month, and good food, which is essential for play to progress.

CatanAzulCodenamesExploding KittensUnstable UnicornsMonopoly DealUno Flip

Photos

My wall of memories. If you have made it onto this wall, you mean a great deal to me.

Memories

Homes

Bengaluru made me. Boston is where I live and work. Madrid was two months that counted for far more than two months.

Where I am now. Bentley, the Haptosphere, and the place I graduated.

Novels

If the number of books everywhere and the one in my hands has not given it away: I read constantly. I love getting lost in strange worlds and taking a character’s problems far too personally.

FictionStrange worldsRecommendations welcome

Ganesha

I grew up on mythological comics and devotional songs. This is the small piece of home I carry everywhere, for hope and strength.

The television

I can never pick a genre: cricket, true crime, Love Is Blind, feel-good nonsense, all of it. Murder mysteries are the one I always come back to.

True crimeEverything else

Heart ಪ್ರೀತಿ ♥

My name means love in Kannada, so the heart is not decoration. Every other Kannada song seems to have it in there somewhere.

KannadaPreeti = love

Music

My grandmother was a music teacher, so I have been learning since I was small and have kept at it for more than half my life. Something is always playing, whatever I am doing, and when nobody else is in the room every song becomes a karaoke session.

CarnaticBhavageeteFilm songs

Eight of eight.