Who am I?
My name is Bhaskar Sarma and I am the Jack-of-many-trades,master of some.
If you want the short story look no farther that the next para. The longer story is after that.
I am a geek who loves to write. I am a maker of cheap solar cookers which cooks as well as the ones in the market. My idea of fun would be trawling malls and multiplexes looking for unsecured Wifi hotspots. My choice of literature extends from the epics of Tolkein, the sci-fi works of Frank Herbert ,the classics of Dickens and the poems of Tennyson to everything in between and the sides too. I think socialism is an anachronism but neither is capitalism the panacea of all ills. I am comfortable discussing Tyndall effect, string theory, the Sandmeyer reaction and marker assisted selection. My blind spot is music: I am not very niche, but I am working on it. I have my own bucket list, and someday I will blog about it.
My education has been in Computer Engineering from National Institute of Technology,Surat. I didn’t join the software industry but did something I had always wanted to do, combine my passions of writing and tech. That led me to Digit,where I was staff writer for more than a year. At the end of this stint I wanted to explore another interest of mine- information security. Unfortunately, as the nature of the work took an unexpected turn and the business climate changed I found myself doing something that I didn’t love, or even like. Time to explore once more. Change came, in the form of a career counsellor named Al Gore.
“An Inconvenient Truth” got Gore his Nobel but it reinforced something that I have come to realise a long time ago- once we make the Earth unlivable we will have no place to go. Eventually I came to Sidh in Mussoorie, a NGO running schools who were enthusiastic about green energy. The past three and a half months have been an incredible voyage of self discovery and learning. Some glimpses are reflected in the blog postings, while others are too private to be shared.
And now, where will I be? I don’t know. But eventually I will, and you too when you keep following my journey through this blog.
