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Latest Update: Took part in the "Photographers of Powai" exhibition recently. Six of us were featured - Dilip Bhatia, Swapan Mukherjee, Mahesh Hiremath, Suchit Nanda, Mukesh Trivedi and myself. Some of photos I exhibited can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/ybkjpk An interview of mine on the subject of Open Source in Education appeared in Digital Learning magazine. The article is at http://www.digitallearning.in/apr1006/Conversation.htm I recently bought a Nikon D70s and am having great fun with it. For those who haven't heard of it, it is a great digital SLR camera. Another Update: I won the Open Source Personality of the Year award at LinuxAsia 2006.More details are at: http://www.in.redhat.com/news/article/68.html I work with Red Hat, the world's leading open source software company. I also coordinate the Red Hat Scholarships (RHS), a program that's designed to encourage enthusiasts in engineering colleges, MCA programs etc to develop Open Source Software (OSS) and contribute it to the community. The software developed under RHS will be available for free under one of the open source licenses like GPL. If you are interested in mentoring the students who have registered for RHS, please sign up as an expert at www.it.iitb.ac.in/rhs To know more about the program, see http://www.in.redhat.com/community/rhscholarship.php In my distant past, I have been a journalist and editor. An old column for Times Computing (Times of India, Mumbai) where I got to pontificate on quantum computing, movie animations, how the mind works and other fun stuff is up at http://www.timescomputing.com/eml.html. There's lots of other stuff I have written and one of these days, I'll put them online. Ocassionally, I dabble in photography and my favorite timepass activity is taking off on a hike and photographing flowers. The photo of the cyclist gliding past Mysore Palace is one of my favorite ones. I had gone to Mysore many years ago and had composed the palace and was about to click. Through the corner of my eye, I saw a cyclist coming into the frame. I waited till the cyclist was in front of the palace and took two quick shots. The first one is what you see above and I love the balance in the photo--the two tourists framed in the front wheel of the cycle, the dome of the palace framed within the V of the cycle, the half-circle of the rear wheel in the frame and the overall balance of the cycle against the palace. If more photos turned out like this :-) I love movies and reading and intelligent company (who doesn't? :-) One big passion in my life is bringing the benefits of Information Technology (IT) to the rest of India. My primary concern has been that IT is available only to those who know English. This is giving rise to a new caste systems because the brahmins of tommorrow will then be those who (a) know English and (b) are computer literate. To destroy this barrier, IndLinux.org (http://www.indlinux.org) a non-profit that I co-founded with Prakash Advani is developing Indian language user interfaces to the Linux operating system. A significant amount of work has been already done in Hindi and you can check this out wt www.indlinux.org. I love partying as long as the company consists of intelligent people -- no pointless polite conversation for me! Despite being a journalist, I am a decent listener and I like learning from others (but this feature is known to be disabled sometimes :-) I recently came across a Zen quote which I liked: "The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both." ELECTION UPDATE: I am extremely happy that the BJP is out of power. I am not a Congress voter but this time I voted for them because I could not stand what happened in Godhra. When the instrument of state is used as a weapon of mass murder, we are just one step away from fascism. It's then time for civilised people to say, "Enough is enough! This is not the kind of India that we want to leave behind for our next generation. We want progress and prosperity, not hatred and bloodshed. We want India to be a superpower and have pride of place in the community of nations. We don't want an India that's shredded to pieces by civil war. We want a country with a future, not one that's quarelling endlessly over the dead past." Thankfully, today, India has taken a few steps in the other direction. There is some hope for humanity and decency in public life in India! And now a quiz tells me that my character is similar to Morpheus from the Matrix! This comes just as I was planning to add the following lines from a Ghazal to describe myself: Hum bhi dariya hain hume apna hunar maloom hai jis taraf chal pade rasta ho jayega [I flow like a river, I know my own worth Wherever I go, I leave pathways behind me.]  You are Morpheus, from "The Matrix." You have strong faith in yourself and those around you. A true leader, you are relentless in your persuit. What Matrix Persona Are You? brought to you by Quizilla So drop me a line! Sign in to be able to view venky7's guestbook and friends list!
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