My brother, Ramu Narayan, was a veteran of Silklist and often would speak to me about his conversations and friends here. He passed away on January 14 this year, and I came down to Mumbai to be with him and now to deal with his aftermath.
In introducing myself to this group, I feel like I'm stepping into someone else's shoes. I do many things, but primarily am know for my writing — both on food, and as an author of several books, including *Travels with the Fish*, *The Book of Answers* and *Hoyt's War*. I also make movies, cook, teach cooking, work with theatre in distant communities, and have reasonable graphic design skills, to name a few. I'm 64, live in Bangkok, and travel around the world a great deal. My Twitter handle is humbird — you'll probably get a good sense of me from there. Looking forward to travels with the silk. . Gopi www.cygopinath.com [image: --] C Y Gopinath [image: https://]about.me/humbird <https://about.me/humbird?promo=email_sig>
