I was a Novice with the Faithful Companions of Jesus, a semi-enclosed religious order. Apart from a period at this Novitiate based in Kent, England, I am a teacher, a translator, a poet, a blogger, fiction writer and an impressionist painter now living in Italy.  I am also a researcher for ARS Studio of Architecture, where having restored Gogunda Palace in India am presently working on a narrative history of Rajasthan.