I was a reserved and introspective child, preferring the company of a few close friends bonded through shared interests like sports. The school itself was a microcosm, with large classes and hundreds of students per batch. Individual attention was a luxury, overshadowed by a predominant focus on academic excellence. For those of us with a more creative inclination or quieter demeanour, finding our place meant navigating through the currents of conformity. Social anxiety weighed heavily on me, making it difficult to engage with large groups of people. Despite these challenges, I formed deep, enduring friendships that have lasted to this day. Many people from my school days, even those I wasn’t very interactive with back then, still keep in touch.
Life at home, in Munirka was dynamic yet often unpredictable. Despite residing in a relatively secure enclave within the DDA colony, the surrounding Munirka village presented a stark contrast. The neighbourhood buzzed with a diverse population from all corners of the country, engaging in a myriad of activities. There was an intense sense of uncertainty, knowing that just a few streets away, the landscape could change dramatically. While Munirka posed its challenges, it also provided a fertile ground for personal growth and discovery. I do cherish the lessons learned and the community that shaped my early years, even though it required a lot of effort for me to get out of my shell and find my sense of identity. So, while growing up in such an environment was a struggle for me, it taught me resilience and resourcefulness. I often felt like an outsider in various aspects of my life—be it in community settings, academics, social circles, or even dealing with medical issues.
I was an average student in school because I was not focused on the formal academia. I was never in the top three in academics, but I would comfortably score and reach within the top ten because my mother was quite focused towards my academic results. School was not difficult and neither was acing exams but I put in a lot less energy in my studying. I studied just enough to be able to get above average grades and I would try to keep that level to maintain balance. I was more into sports in school; however, I didn’t really have the logistics or infrastructure for my family to support me into extra vocations outside of academics, so I would pursue at home and I would play in school. I would get into school teams but I wouldn’t really be able to go for a lot of practice and matches outside of school. In fact, my vision and dream as a child was to be a sports manager or a sports agent. My primary focus has always been that I wanted to work for my own self and have my own entrepreneurship or operation. I didn’t know what I wanted to do but I knew that I would like to start something of my own even if it stays small and nothing comes out of it. I wanted to be the owner of my time and decide how I wanted to allocate my energy into the end into projects.
The Parliament security invite was actually a stroke of luck. I was doing a lot of videos for Instagram and YouTube influencers who would come to our facility and feature us and feature our work. And one of those videos ended up being watched by at the time. This was during lockdown of 2020, and he saw the videos and saw how advanced modern security dog training systems had already arrived in India, which he had really wanted that for the security services. So, he invited me during the lockdown to come and And these dogs were being managed nicely and they had phenomenal systems in place which showed how invested they were into them. In fact, I keep getting regularly called in, not just to the Parliament security dog squad, but various different government and private dog squads like Army, Police, NSG, CISF, CRPF, SSB, ITBP, all of the defence forces. In fact, the ship ports, airports, all of the massive institutions where they would benefit from dog security, whether it’s guard dogs or explosives detection dogs reach out. I specialize in training and consulting for developing of guard dogs and sniffer dogs.
Capturing the entirety of my experience is quite a challenge, but it has been nothing short of fascinating and profoundly impactful. I’ve been trained from Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, US, UK, Belgium, and over 11 countries for the most advanced systems in search and rescue, police tracking, bomb detection and personal defence and security. And these are the things that I would like to contribute to India on a private level, government level and even a voluntary level. I want to help improve the standards of our security dogs, bomb sniffer dogs and search and rescue dogs so that our country is also up to the same standards and same benchmarks that are being followed internationally. We should be in the top ranks with our canine security systems which is not in the spotlight or focus at the moment.
On my part, I am always available for my country to be able to provide any service, wherever I would be required as a security dog consultant in terms of kennel management, nutrition, training, upbringing, behaviour, even training the handlers and the trainers that are in the government forces. I will share my expertise, and specialisation to contribute to my nation and improve the standards to up to my best capacity. We are already doing this in private spaces like RWAs, neighbourhoods, hotels for HNI celebrities, politicians. We place security dogs in events like stadiums, concerts. In fact, I am so I happily consult and guide and improve their standards of taking care of the best practices being followed, so that the dogs are well taken care of and they have the highest performance level and stability in these intense and volatile situations.
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