Danish Abdi hails from Bhavnagar (Gujarat), having spent most of his childhood there. After his higher schooling from Vadodara, he graduated from BITS Pilani, Pilani campus, with B.E (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is a musician, writer, sketch artist, travel and nature enthusiast, an ardent cyclist, and currently works in JP Morgan & Chase, Bangalore. He maintains a blog detailing his travels (wanderingdanish.blogspot.in) and has a YouTube channel. His father was an organic chemist with CSMCRI and is now a consultant in Indirapuram. His mother worked as an environment researcher with CEE and is now a freelance writer. They’re both amateur photographers. He has an elder brother, working as a journalist in New Delhi.