About Rish

Dancer. Science Geek. entrepreneur

My Story

Hi! Name’s Rishikesh Chhabra. Friends call me Rish. I hail from Burma.  I had a strong interest in alternative and renewable energy systems, environment, nature, circular economy. I still retain this. interest and run a landscpaing firm where we walk the talk in Sustainability.  I was involved in setting up an English language student newspaper in my uni, and ran the thing as Editor-in-Chief, for about a year. I still retain a strong interest in journalism.

I was a varsity debater and founding member of the AU debate society) and AYF (Asian Youth Forum), an undergraduate level youth network, where I serve as Secretary General.

I am an avid reader, and have a voracious appetite for information. I guess you could call me an info-junkie. In my spare time, I craft poetry, and do a bit of doodling now and then; mainly pencil sketches – portraits and landscapes are my thing, though I prefer to use water color for the latter.

I cannot really say that I like computers, though they have an eerie way of creeping into my life. I must admit though that I have a knack for understanding the highly unstable critters and speak several versions of their dialects – this I am not very proud of; I’d much rather add one more human language to my paltry list of four (English, Hindi, Burmese, Punjabi). Top on my wish list would be Chinese, Spanish, Arabic and Russian. I dabbled in open source in my college days, and still retain a strong interest in all things tech related overall.

Let’s see – sports! I used to do a bit of rock climbing, though crag crawling would be a more accurate description of what I used to do. My fav de-stressing activity was Roller Bladin’, though I used to play soccer, and tennis when I was younger and financed by mom and dad. I also love dancing, and actually took the time to learn it properly – Tango, Cha Cha Cha, Salsa, Waltz, Foxtrot, that sort of thing; and later really deep dived into Street and Latin dance – with Salsa right at the top of the list – I current run a dance school in Hyderabad and built the Latin scene here from scratch with the help of my dance alma mata Furor. Currently working to replicate that success with West Coast Swing.

I am not a loner, but I wouldn’t really call myself a gregarious individual. Sure, I do go out, and have a large circle of friends, but mostly I prefer to keep my own council.

That doesn’t mean though that I don’t share my opinions. On the contrary, I am probably a very opinionated individual and will readily share my advice on a wide range of subjects to whoever would care to listen! That should already be obvious from the fact that I am making a personal website – dedicated to myself.

You are of course welcome to disagree on any issue or view that I may have on any subject. As long as the discussion is academic, I am willing to debate it and defend my position. In real life though, I am willing to compromise – and you will too, once you get a gf – or a significant other. My wife however, disagrees that I compromise – and she is absolutely correct!