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Who am I ?
Well, I am also not sure, the more I think about it
the more I seem to be lost in the thought, but the closest approximation would
be Shantanu Nigam...
Where ?
I hail from Lucknow
- the city of nawaabs... presently in Atlanta, giving advice to our company's clients, how to burn their hard earned money in different fancy ways.
Why ?
I think I am here in this alien country to work as a
software engg, and as a side effect forget all engg I had tried not to pick up
for four years but had to. Although I am not sure why at all I am here, I know
the answer lies somewhere in those long equations which are written for the
prime purpose of solving q-phy problems, but are more effective as q-phy
busters.
Educational
qualifications
I completed my
engineering in 1998, from IIT Kanpur, in Material Science & Metallurgical engg as
major, don't ask me why, it is absolutely irrelevant because I never liked it,
and joined it only for the sake of the computer facilities which I was much
fascinated about.
more...
about my 4 yrs of hostel stay.
Some cool Snaps
Myself
with my college
pals
IITK campus
Some photographs taken by me
I belong to the b-bot clan of Hall I, which
was previously known as b-top of Hall II. I have a long list of my friends with
whom i have lived for four years, most of them are either professionally too
busy or lazy to make a page, i'll list some of them who have an existence on the
web
Etah
Manish Kumar
Sachin Bansal
Schooling...
ICSE - 1991, La Martiniere College,
Lucknow.
ISC - 1993, La Martiniere
College, Lucknow.
I have ever been
only to this school which has lot of memories attached, it was a day/boarding
school, and is 150+ years old. 1995 saw sesquicentenary celebrations all over
the country.
More About me...
Ever since I got introduced to a BBC micro, in class
IX, I have been inpressed by the likes. I used to fantasize writing software for
all sorts of things and also created a graphical representation of compounds
involved in electrovalent and covalent bonding using the limited capabilities of
the BBC Micro and my limited knowledge of BASIC. I still remember my tricks of
crashing the machines to get to repair them after school hours so that I can get
more time with it. Though very badly designed, that piece of code was sufficient
to provide me with enough motivation to do something in life so that I get to
write such codes for big companies.
more...
Some articles...
An article about IITians in US
Some cool links...
Some of my guitar tabulatures
Dilbert
- how can an engineer's page be complete without this link, my favourite
NOVA - Einstien
Amazing world of optical illusions
A Penrose tiler
My favourite obsession - Pink floyd's 'The Wall Page'
To learn Sanskrit
PCSE Linux Users group
Peep into my life...
A glimpse of my diary
Some books I enjoyed...
"The Dancing Wu Li Master" - Gary Zukov
This book is in itself a dance, a dance of modern physics and eastern mysticism, though I hate this word 'mysticism', I would prefer to call it ancient knowledge, but thats the way most people understand it. (link Rating: *)
"Surely you're Joking, Mr Feynmann!" - Richard Feynmann
A great physicist, and a great person, this combination in not very rare to find, one who is a great physicist, tends to be a great person, knowledge pf physics changes the way you see your world. (link Rating: **)
"Theory of Relativity" - Albert Einstein
I think this one was translated by someone. Again a great person and a great physicist, I have read a biography of einstein as well, I have been fascinated by this person. Most of his work is in German, I hate the fact that I don't know German, it would be a great experience to get a first hand view of his ideas. (link Rating: ****)
"The Fountainhead" - Ayn Rand
Full of energy, and makes you feel like raising your arms to eternity and feeling that life within you, its only a pity and ironical that the author herself commited suicide after writing a book full of a jist to live. (link Rating: *)
"Jonathan Livingstone Seagull" - Richar Bach
(The above link has the complete book online) A new dimension to life, a new meaning, it takes perfection a step forward! "Illusions", "One" and this book all are light, short and very refreshing books by one of the craziest writers of our times. (link Rating: *****)
"The Turning Point" - Fritzof Capra
Discussions of three people, a physicist, a poet, a political leader. Quite interesting, but requires patience, if you are not that type then go to Blockbuster and get "Mindwalk", this movie is based on this book. "The tao of Physics" by the same author, is also worth reading. (link Rating: )
"A Brief History of Time" - Stephen Hawkings
You must have already read it, so I won't waste my time, space on my page, and your time by writing about it, 'its a beautiful experience' is all I have to say about this beautiful book. (link Rating: *****)
"Hitchhikers guide to the end of the Universe" - Douglas Adams
Ha ha ha, its one of the most amusing books I ever read. British Humour at its very best (link Rating: ****** complete book in eformat is available for reading)
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