At the age of 15, he attended a luge camp at his school conducted by world champion Günther Lemmerer.

Beginning in November 2014, Keshavan collaborated with Duncan Kennedy to train for 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

Keshavan qualified for his sixth and final Olympics in 2018,[3] where he finished 34th out of 40 athletes in the men's singles event.

[5] Shiva now aims at promoting Winter Games in India, and creating an ecosystem to produce more athletes competing at the highest level.

[6] Keshavan gets most of his money from crowdfunding on the Internet and in the 2014 Sochi games, his uniform bore the names of 50,000 donors.

[3] Keshavan is the son of an Indian father from Kerala and an Italian mother, who met while backpacking in the Himalayas in the 1970s.