Having taken an interest in rural reporting, he had shifted to the semi-rural district of Dakshina Kannada (Mangalore), where he focussed on tribal issues and fraught communal lines there. His computer is filled with dozens of half-written short stories; and to complete them has been his new years resolution for over a decade (Conveniently, he has the attention span of a fly, and so, these resolutions are forgotten immediately after making them). Though 26, has been aptly called Tatha (Grandfather) in the office for his 1960’s music and dressing sense.