Rhyme Time
Playful poetry for young readers and the grown-ups beside them.
Hello, I’m Mumpy
I write where wonder meets the everyday.
I’m an author, poet, storyteller and incurably curious human based in Bengaluru. I write for readers who still pause for the strange, tender questions hiding inside ordinary life.
My story
Words have always been how I look closer.
A poem can hold a feeling. A story can hold a world. A question can quietly change the person asking it.
My writing moves across poetry, philosophy, children’s verse, speculative fiction, romance and illustrated storytelling. The forms change, but the impulse beneath them stays the same: to look at life with curiosity, and to make room for more than one truth at a time.
I’m drawn to the things we often hurry past—the inner life of an ordinary moment, the humour inside a serious question, the mystery inside love, and the way nature keeps speaking even when we forget to listen.
The published journey
Three books. Three different doorways.
Haikus: Love. Nature. Mystics.
Small poems that hold stillness, love and the quietly mystical.
Deep Philosophical Pondering with a Side of Mango Pickle
Large questions served with curiosity, wit and something tangy.
Beyond the page
A life with more than one chapter.
Beyond writing, I am an investor and serial entrepreneur. Moving through the worlds of entrepreneurship and startups keeps me close to people, possibilities and ideas in motion. That practical life feeds the philosophical one; both begin with paying attention—to what is, and to what might exist just beyond the obvious.
I don’t write to offer neat answers. I write because some questions deserve beautiful rooms to live in.
Come, stay curious.
The next story is already unfolding.
Begin with a published book, wander through a free story, or simply carry one good question into the rest of your day.