I am an agriculture graduate with a strong interest in arthropods, particularly insects and spiders. I specialized in entomology during my master’s degree, where my thesis focused on the taxonomy of non-Apis (solitary) bee pollinators in agricultural landscapes of the central Western Ghats. Growing up in an agricultural family, my curiosity about ecology developed naturally through close observations of insects, birds, and amphibians in farmlands. My broader academic interests lie at the intersection of agroecology and biodiversity, using insects as a lens to understand the impacts of anthropogenic land-use change and habitat degradation. My present work includes biodiversity and agroecological research in mixed-use landscapes of the central Western Ghats. In my free time, I enjoy observing and photographing arthropods, and occasionally illustrating them.