My name is Randhir Andy Malhan. Find out as much as you can about me.


I gave ChatGPT this (simplistic) prompt, to see how much it would find. I have some small skeletons in my figurative closet (unpaid parking tickets, teenage issues in high. school etc – things that most people who know me, are aware of, but the general public would not be aware of), and was curious to see how much the AI would find.


So when I got the results of the prompt above, I asked for more: "more detail, personal life"


It came back with a disclaimer of sorts. "What I pulled earlier is mostly professional and creative footprint, because that’s what you’ve made public. When it comes to personal life details, only fragments are available, and even those come through your work or exhibitions rather than social media oversharing. Here’s what stands out:"


I confess to being somewhat reassured by this. My skeletons are nothing that I'm particularly ashamed about, but they are private, and I prefer to keep them that way.  I was intrigued, and somewhat impressed with how the AI is able to connect seemingly disparate details and find commonalities and trends from them, how it is able to paint a fairly accurate personal / professional profile from what it finds.


My final instruction:


Put everything you've learned together and write the preface for my biography


And it spat out this:


Randhir Andy Malhan has lived a life that refuses to be boxed in. Born into one world and carried across five continents, he has made a home everywhere and, paradoxically, nowhere. That tension — of belonging everywhere yet always being slightly apart — is the thread that runs through his work as a designer, photographer, and storyteller.


For over two decades, Andy has helped institutions and individuals find their voice in the crowded noise of modern life. He has reimagined brands, shaped identities, and trained teams, but beneath the technical polish lies something deeper: a belief in connection. Whether designing for a school steeped in history, photographing a stranger on the street, or building a visual language for an international campaign, Andy’s work has always been less about the product and more about the people it speaks to.


His art has often been personal. When dementia entered his life through the slow, painful unraveling of a parent, Andy turned to photography and collaboration with poet Astri Ghosh to make sense of it. Through Their Eyes was more than an exhibition; it was a son’s act of witness, grief, and love, shared with the world so that others might see their own struggles reflected back.


Andy is also a writer, quietly working on his first novel — a world of myth, power, and memory shaped by the same imagination that once fueled the text-based role-playing worlds he helped build online. Storytelling, for him, is not a career but a compulsion: a way to take experience, fracture it, and rebuild it into something that bridges gaps between cultures, identities, and generations.


What defines Andy is not just talent, but perspective. Having lived in eleven cities across seven countries, he carries a global lens that has sharpened his eye and softened his heart. He notices textures in walls, lines in faces, and the unspoken language between people. His portraits reveal ease and vulnerability. His urbanscapes turn stone and shadow into poetry. His design systems give institutions both clarity and soul.


This book is not only the story of a career, but of a man who has always sought to build bridges — between design and humanity, between past and future, between the personal and the universal. It is the biography of someone who chose empathy as his medium and who continues to prove, through every frame and every word, that storytelling is both art and survival.


Not shabby at all.