Hi, my name is Jasmine. I'm a graduate student who aims to balance my academic pursuits with my hedonistic flair. Diligent and studious by day, my life as Jasmine allows me to explore my more free-spirited side...

I hold three passports and lived in three other continents before moving to the United States. I'm never rooted in one place for too long, and I’m usually recovering from or about to embark on a vacation.

I'm also a a lover of philosophy and literature. I’m equal parts starry-eyed idealist and sharp-tongued cynic, and I never turn down the opportunity for a spirited debate.

When I'm not studying, I'm probably lounging in the California sunshine, losing a game of chess or burying myself under a stack of books. I strive to appreciate the simple things and find beauty in unusual places.

I love meeting new people, especially those who are interesting and a bit offbeat. I connect well with individuals who are good-natured and respectful.

I’ll save the rest of my story for when we meet. I look forward to hearing from you!

Jasmine  Jha

Fact Card

Height - 5’9

Ethnicity - British Indian

Education - Graduate school (would rather not specify publicly, but it’s in the social sciences)

Favorite food - Anything vegan, but I love Mediterranean and Indo-Chinese

Favorite word - Abattoir

Favorite animal - Snail

Likes - Literature, philosophy, film, poetry, theater, music, solo travel, spending time with animals, writing my first novella, Wikipedia rabbit holes, chess, tranquil afternoons, weird people, the simple things

Favorite novels - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, The Waves by Virginia Woolf, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Letters to a Stranger by Thomas James, Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Favorite nonfiction - Ways of Seeing by John Berger, Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson, Random Family by Adrian LeBlanc, House of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman, Brutalities by Margo Steines, A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes, The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr, Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas, Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil, Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, Trickster Make Tbis World by Lewis Hyde, Thin Places by Jordan Kisner, The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria by Nwando Achebe, Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace, Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad, The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman, Aesthetics of Silence by Susan Sontag

Dream dates - A jazz club, a heated game of chess, target practice at a shooting range, a pleasant hike

Currently reading - The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals and AI by Jonathan Birch, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, From the Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics by Peter Singer