animusmeus.me — a look into who I am
Daksh
Singh
Student. Writer. Pianist. Thinker.

I'm Daksh Singh. I'm fifteen, and I study at The Doon School in Dehradun.

I write about power — who has it, how it moves, and what it costs the people it passes through. I play the piano because music reaches places that arguments can't. I founded Music for Memories because I believe that connection is the most radical act available to us.

Animus Meus is not a portfolio. It's not a brand. It's a window into how I think, what I feel, and who I'm becoming.

Everything here is real. Nothing here is for show.

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Who I Am
I'm Daksh Singh — a fifteen-year-old student at The Doon School, Dehradun. I write about power, conformity, and political economy. I play the piano. I founded Music for Memories, an initiative connecting young musicians with elderly residents through live performance. I sit on the editorial board of The Doon School Weekly and serve on the secretariat of the Young Entrepreneurs Conference.

Animus Meus — my mind, my soul — is where all of it lives together. The writing, the music, the thinking. Not a brand. Just me.
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Daksh Singh — Dehradun, 2024
What I'm working on
Reading
Notes from the Underground — Dostoevsky
Writing
Article on the glamour of suffering
Playing
Bach Invention No.3 · Chopin Nocturne in E♭ · Rachmaninoff Op.23 No.2
Building
Music for Memories — off-campus expansion
Beyond the page
Music for Memories. An initiative I founded connecting young musicians with elderly residents through live performance. Music is a language that doesn't require a shared vocabulary. Age becomes irrelevant. Connection doesn't.
The Doon School Weekly. I sit on the editorial board of one of India's oldest school newspapers, founded in 1936. Editing forces a different kind of thinking than writing. You have to understand what someone else is trying to say before you can help them say it better.
Young Entrepreneurs Conference. Member of the secretariat. Working with student delegates to develop ideas that are meant to be built, not just presented.
Sports and everything else. Life at Doon is not only in the classroom or the practice room. The rest of it shapes how I think just as much.
Writing
Everything I've written — essays, ideas, arguments. A record of how I've thought, not just what I've thought.
Music
I've been playing since I was five. This is what that sounds like.
Repertoire
Invention No. 3 in D major
J.S. Bach
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Nocturne in E♭ major, Op. 9 No. 2
Frédéric Chopin
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Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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About my music

I have been playing the piano since I was five. I have studied under Karl Lutchmayer, and I hold a diploma in piano performance. But those are just the facts. The actual story is harder to explain.

Writing and piano solve different problems for me. Writing untangles what I think. Piano untangles what I feel. There is a specific kind of tension — when you have been working through an argument for an hour and your head is full of competing ideas — that only a Chopin nocturne seems to resolve. Music asks nothing of you except attention. No counterarguments. No footnotes. Just the next note.

Music for Memories grew out of this belief: that music is a language which doesn't require a shared vocabulary. When I play for elderly residents who haven't spoken much in days, something changes. That's not sentiment. That's what actually happens.

What I'm Doing Now
Last updated — June 2025 · Dehradun
Reading
Current
Notes from the UndergroundDostoevsky. The underground man is insufferable and completely right. I find myself arguing with him on every page.
Recent
The StrangerCamus. Already wrote about it. Still thinking about it.
Writing
In progress
On the glamour of sufferingWhy our culture aestheticises pain — and what that costs us. Harder to write than I thought.
Playing
Bach
Invention No. 3 in D majorWorking on clarity in the left hand. Bach rewards precision more than any other composer.
Chopin
Nocturne in E♭, Op. 9 No. 2I have played this for two years. I am still finding new things in it.
Rachmaninoff
Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5The hardest thing I have attempted. It will take time.
Building
M4M
Music for Memories — off-campus expansionTaking M4M beyond Doon School. The logistical problems are interesting. The human problems are more so.
Get In Touch
For collaborations, conversations, or anything else. If something I wrote made you think differently about something — I'd especially like to hear that.
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