On 5th of November 2019 I spoke at the CHANGING THE GAME conference in Delhi. The subject was “Sports for Gender Equity and Ending Child Marriage”. It was my very first talk in public, and it was the first bigger talk I gave in English. I was quite a bit nervous – but I made […]
At the Skateboarding World Championships in CHina last year I was interviewed by World Skate Organisation – this was pretty cool. I enjoyed it a lot and they made a nice short documentation 🙂
From the fields of rural India to the shining city of Nanjing in China – no, not on a skateboard – but with a skateboard under my arm. Arun, and I have come a long way. It’s only three and a half years since Janwaar Castle opened, the first skatepark in the heart of rural India, […]
This is a long story. And sometimes I still can’t believe all this happend. But it did. It was with this story that my life changed. And I am very thankful for that. It wasn’t all easy and it took a long time, and I learned a lot. Sometimes I felt lonely in England, I […]
In 2015/2016 I had endless conversations with my parents. I was invited to go to England to learn better English. This invitation came to after a workshop that took place in my village at the new skatepark. I participated in the English sessions and at the end, I had this invitation. A long journey begun. […]
This was my first appearence on national television. I was very nervous when NDTV came to our village to shoot this short documentary on me. This was in 2015 or in 2016. I had just started to skateboard and I was getting ready for my very first trip out of India.