Ave! I am Meet, 21. I was born on the west coast of India. When I turned six, I moved to Shardapeeth, Dwarika, one of the four cardinal Mathas in the monastic order established by Adi Shankaracharya in the 7th century. I was trained in systematic non-dualistic theology under the 53rd successor to Adi Shankaracharya and the head of the monastic order, Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati. I wrote treatises on the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Greco-Roman philo-theological counterparts during my time at Shardapeeth.
I left Shardapeeth when I was 13 and moved to Serbia, where I was primarily trained in systematic Eastern Orthodox theology under Arhiepiskop Pećki, Mitropolit Beogradsko-Karlovački, Patrijarh Srpski. In the following years, I moved around various seminaries and monasteries in Eastern Orthodox orders in Belgrade, Moscow, Sergiyev Posad, Kiev, Athens, Tirana, Prague, and Prešov. I also spent eight months in the Vatican in 2019 under the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
During my late teens, while I was still in Belgrade, our family’s patronage of Ljubljanian, Yugoslavian, and Parisian schools of Lacanianism led me to explore various structuralist and post-structuralist foundational thinkers including Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, Benjamin, Girard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Baudrillard, etc., and post-structural derivative thinkers such as Land, Plant, Fisher, Greenspan, Negarestani, and others.
(I do not advocate for any pedagogical contexts, subjects, orders, theorists, or mentioned figures above. For the first 20 years of my life, I was put under a highly curated and extensive pedagogy and have probably been around every thinker with somewhat radical views at some point in my life. While agreeing with many, I do not advocate for their positions.)
Currently, I chair BRV Foundations and Trusts. Apart from advising the board and concluding proposals, I manage active fixed income absolute returns, academic grants, and philanthropy portfolios. The foundation was established in the late 1980s during the Indian sovereign bond market crisis, where we became the representative body on the negotiations committee.
On the academic side, we fund post-Keynesian new monetarism scholars and scholars working on the themes of spread, liquidity and funding crises in public finance, dealer function, public pension systems, etc. We currently work with most major public pension funds in the US, EU, and India as collaborators in our policy patronage network. Being a permanent capital vehicle allows us to look at the world on generational scales and work on problems of that stature.
Before joining the family foundation, I ran a sovereign rates arbitrage fund. We mostly arbitraged between real risk-free rates and synthetic risk-free rates across global north and global south sovereign credit markets, as well as commodities and crypto markets.
During weekends, and whenever I am not in the office, I lead the Polo and Hunting Teams of the Princely Battalion of Sorath, founded by my fifth paternal grandfather, His Highness Sir Hasraj Patel Barvadiya, which was established during WWI and fought alongside the Entente Powers on the Constantinople front with the princely battalions of His Highness Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh and His Highness Maharaja Sir Sadul Singh of Bikaner on our side.
The epistemic themes I’ve been working on for the past decade include sovereignty, sovereign security, sovereign succession, sovereign risk, sovereign deferral, sovereign servility, par internalization, dealer function, liquidity succession, ontological systems of spreads, liquidity and options, option theory of sovereignty, and modalities of legitimacy in the sovereign order during sovereign servility and during the crisis of par internalization.
If you find a sublime resonance in anything above, the best way to reach out to me is at meet@brvfoundations.com. I’d love to share some stories which I have not shared here for obvious reasons.