about
Hello. I’m Kahran.
I write poems, and most days I build software. The poems came first. The software is newer, and it is mostly tools to support myself: one place where everything I leave behind lands, a day planned from it, and a public record of what got built. The photograph and poem on the home page come out of the same machine, one of each a day.
Joyus is a storytelling and experience design studio with Divya Tak. Tres Monos invests early in underrepresented founders, with Sweta Jagirdar and Sahil Sagar. At Vidyanext, in Bangalore, I took over after a leadership crisis; when it could not be saved, I placed all 65+ people within two months.
How the World Works, a first book, 2022, and one a day on the home page, chosen by the day’s weather. An MFA in Writing and Poetics underway at the Jack Kerouac School, Naropa.
I’m learning Kathak from Rachna Nivas in New York. I’m married to Gourav: we eloped in Telluride, in the snow, and did it again in Jaisalmer with 150 people a year later.
Write to me. Especially if you are drawing up your own contract with the world instead of signing the one you were handed: what it gives you, what you give back, and which of the settled questions you are asking again. Tell me what’s going on. K
Sometimes I smile at myself (in the mirror) and wonder what must it be like to be my friend.
- nowTools, with Claude. MFA in poetry at Naropa’s Kerouac School. Kathak at the Kathak Legacy Project.
- 2025Board of TomboyX. A panel in Kauai, seven StartOut talks.
- 2024Poem Films, with Divya Tak. SEEN V, Boulder.
- 2022Joyus Studio. How the World Works, a first book. Jaisalmer.
- 2021Telluride.
- 2017Tres Monos Capital, with Sweta Jagirdar and Sahil Sagar.
- 2015Vidyanext, Bangalore, until 2019.
- 2012Aditi Technologies, then Symphony Teleca: product and programmes across the US, India and Russia.
- 2009Microsoft, after an internship in the House of Commons.
- 2006Tufts: computer science and economics, and the Tufts Daily. A year at University College London.