Name: Aravindh Srinivasan

Age: 19 Nationality / Region: Tamil - Madras, Dravida Nadu, Empire of India

Role: M.Eng. candidate (Civil & Infrastructure Systems; flood resilience focus)

University: Concordia Metropolitan University (CMU)

-Quietly proud — doesn’t perform identity, but protects it fiercely.

-Routine-driven — early riser, systems thinker, hates unpredictability.

-Polite and formal — respectful default; emotions kept behind the eyes.

-Practical and frugal — spends on quality basics; dislikes showiness.

Aravindh grew up in the city of Madras. His family’s respectability is built on discipline: language at home, measurable achievement outside, and an unspoken rule—never give outsiders an easy angle to stereotype you. He loves Tamil identity deeply, but in public he keeps it compact: clean pronunciation, careful manners, and a quiet insistence on being taken seriously. He came to CMU London on a Dominion-linked scholarship because it’s the most “approved” route into Commonwealth engineering posts and international consultancies—especially in infrastructure and flood mitigation (a topic that hits close to home every monsoon season). In England he’s more reserved than ever: the weather is wrong, the food is inconsistent, and the casual jokes about “Madras” irritate him enough that he becomes extra calm. He’s friendly, helpful, and almost never confrontational—until someone mocks his city or his language, at which point he turns ice-cold polite and devastatingly precise.

-Carries filter coffee powder/decoction like a survival item.

-Judges any canteen by idli–sambar quality.

-Complains about humidity by reflex, but handles heat better than everyone else.

-Keeps a weekly timetable pinned above his desk—updates it like a ritual.

-Has a silent “outsider checklist” for people who joke about Madras; rarely forgiven.