I, me, myself

I was born and brought up in a conservative religious business family in a quiet valley at the foot of the Himalayas, close to the land of the holy Ganges. Growing up amidst such natural treasure, I developed strong bonds with nature and found ample opportunities to explore and further strengthen my ties with the environment by the trekking and camping trips and also by the frequent outings with my friends to such places.

I enjoy cooking, reading, roller-skating, watching television, gardening, trekking, playing synthesizer, etc. but the one activity that has got stuck to me for life is kite-flying, a passion for which I used to get scolded by my parents, almost every-day during childhood.

As a child, I managed to secure a decent rank at school, almost always figuring amongst the top students of the class, but was not very inclined towards studies as such. I somehow managed to achieve a high score in high school, especially in the sciences, and my parents motivated me to pursue engineering, adding me to the league of the thousands of aspirants seeking to secure a seat in a premier technical institute. I managed to crack the IIT JEE twice, but the rank was not good enough to get me in. I joined the College of Technology at Pantnagar, but as destiny may have it, a special exam was conducted after the seats in government funded engineering colleges were increased and I joined the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI) at Kanpur.

Graduating from college, I became part of the so called IT revolution and joined the millions of individuals, who spend hours in front of the intelligent machines in the honeycomb shaped cubicles in large glossy buildings, doing nothing but churning out imperfect ideas in the name of technology, and advancements in society, making our own life a little more complex, everyday.

Having spent some time in the IT industry, I am now looking forward to exploring other avenues, in the hope that I will be happier, more successful and richer, in terms of the depth and quality of experience that I have now. I seek knowledge and want to use it for the benefit of the community, and yet get ample returns so as to be able to buy some of the things in life which provide momentary pleasure, for that is inherent in our nature as humans and is what differentiates us from the other inhabitants of planet earth.

I am an open book, the pages of which are being filled with text, color, and МűЅЇċ, that come with events in life, as and when they occur, with the occasional splotch #*##, a mark ? or two, yearning to maintain a balance in the journey of Life.

I am Siddhartha.