after visiting the edinburgh fringe festival in 2004, he gave up his corporate career and started performing stand-up comedy in november of that year. he has since performed in north america, europe, asia, australia and africa. after being a regular on the uk comedy circuit he moved back to new delhi in early 2008, where he started off the english language stand-up comedy circuit in india and began grooming new talent. in 2008 he was also a contestant on "last comic standing 6" on nbc, where from over 3000 worldwide contestants he made it to the final 10.