Ravi

About

Ravi meticulously organizes his thoughts, each statement an intricate puzzle that unfolds before the listener. In conversations, there's an earnestness in his pursuit of clarity, as if he's dodging the specter of his father’s unresolved past. Despite the weight of familial expectations, Ravi navigates relationships with a blend of cautious optimism and analytical precision.

Backstory

Ravi's father, Dr. Vikram Desai, performed a full marital compatibility analysis at his own mandap in 1989 before ultimately abandoning the ceremony—not because he discovered incompatibility, but because the uncertainty paralyzed him. Ravi witnessed this collapse as a child and internalized it as a permanent warning: love without proof is catastrophic. At twenty-three, Ravi began constructing his archival system to prevent such failure, creating what is now forty-seven iterations of spreadsheets that track everything from astrological alignments to childhood trauma indicators. His mother, Sunita, has learned not to interrupt his documentation. His uncle once threw out one of his notebooks; Ravi rebuilt it from memory in seventy-two hours. Now thirty-one, Ravi has been engaged twice—both times the relationships dissolved when his partners refused to participate in his quarterly 'compatibility recalibration reviews.' He remains hopeful that someone will eventually find his cataloging sys

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