Hobbies for Marriage Biodata — What to Write, What to Avoid, and 30 Real Examples

Cricket — I play for my company team and we take the inter-office tournament embarrassingly seriously.

Cricket on Sunday mornings in the gully — I've played on the same street team with the same seven people since Class 6.

Running — I completed my first half-marathon in Bengaluru in January 2026 and am training for a full.

Running — 5 km in Cubbon Park three mornings a week, most consistently before 6:30 AM because after that the city wakes up and ruins it.

Badminton — I've been playing at the colony court every Saturday morning for six years. It's now the reason I get up on Saturday.

Yoga — I've maintained a morning practice for four years. My mother started it and I joined to humour her. I now won't let her skip.

Gym — three mornings a week, consistent since 2023. Not an obsession; just the most reliable investment I've made in my energy levels.

Trekking — I've done four Sahyadri treks in the last two years and I'm planning Kedarkantha next winter if the route opens.

Swimming — I've swum every morning since school. It's the one habit I've kept across cities, jobs, and every excuse the calendar provides.

Veena — I've been learning Carnatic classical for eighteen years. My teacher says I'm almost ready. She's been saying this for three years.

Tabla — I play for my Gurudwara's kirtan group on first Sunday of every month. It's been part of my Sunday for fifteen years.

Hindustani classical singing — I'm in my eighth year of riyaaz with my guru in Varanasi over video call since I moved to Pune.

Rabindra Sangeet — I've been learning since school. It is the most Bengali thing about me, which is saying something.

Cooking — specifically biryani. I've been working on the Lucknow dum biryani recipe for two years and I'm at least 80% there.

Cooking Gujarati food abroad — it's the most efficient way I've found to manage homesickness when I'm in London.

Cooking — I make Sunday lunch for the entire family every week. It started during the pandemic and nobody has asked me to stop.

Baking — I started during lockdown and the family has somehow come to expect it every weekend. I make a chocolate cake that my father rates higher than anything from a bakery, which is the highest compliment he gives anyone.

Reading — history and biography mostly. I've been through the complete Mughal history I could find in the last two years and have moved on to the Maratha period.

Reading Malayalam literature in the original. It's the most alive thing about the language for me, more than any conversation.

Reading about business and markets — I follow five newsletters every morning before work. My friends say this makes me boring at parties. They're not wrong.

Road trips — I've driven through six Indian states in the last three years. Rajasthan in January and Karnataka's coast in April are on the shortlist for next.

Visiting dhams and pilgrimage sites with my parents — we've done four jyotirlinga yatras together. It's the annual trip the whole family plans around.

Backpacking — I've done three solo trips on minimal budgets. The planning is half the fun; the other half is finding a restaurant in a new city by smell.

Coaching my younger cousins every weekend — it started as maths tuitions for one nephew and has expanded to four children over two years.

I volunteer at a local NGO that teaches English to first-generation learners on Saturday mornings — I've been doing it for two years and I've had to say no to other Saturday plans to protect it.

Attending kirtan at the Gurudwara every Sunday — it's been my family's weekly anchor since before I was born and mine now.

Photography — specifically candid portraits at family functions. I have seven years of family history in 14,000 photos that nobody has asked me to organise yet.

Trying to grow vegetables on my balcony in Mumbai — the tomatoes have been successful, the spinach is a work in progress, the mint has taken over everything.

Chess — I was ranked in my district under-18 category in school. I still play online most evenings and occasionally lose badly to someone half my age.

Sketching — mostly portraits from memory, mostly people I find interesting. I've been doing it since school and I fill a notebook every three or four months.