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The hardest thing in life is finding out your purpose in it and the raison d'etre for your existence in this world in the first place. In the absence of an absolute clarity of purpose defined by the Almighty, Man has taken it upon himself to invent reasons to justify his existence on this planet. Some find their purpose in the blind pursuit of fame and fortune, some in crime, and others in the service of their disadvantaged fellow humans. For me, along with some elements of the latter and the former necessitated by the onerous demands of society, my main preoccupation has been to determine that divine purpose that has placed me on this planet and in this position, that has never been satisfactorily explained to me till date. It has been a thankless struggle with no rewards except those that border on the spiritual, but I still labour on .. for I believe that without a clear-cut purpose of existence in the universe, you have just become an another addict hooked onto the drug of life without a clue as to what it is that has to be achieved, lost or gained. My life, consequently, has been a never-ending struggle with a long series of ups and downs, with the troughs dominating the crests, one that unfortunately echoes true of that of the most part of humanity. I was born on April 18, 1975 in Cochin, India but grew up in Bombay on the west coast. I spent the early years of my childhood at Santacruz, a relatively cheap-priced suburb in this expensive metropolis where land prices rival those of Tokyo and New York. I did most of my schooling at the Bombay Scottish School, Mahim ... a famous school founded by Scottish missionaries in the glory days of the British Raj in India, and the alma mater of future celebrities like Aamir Khan and Hrithik Roshan to name an illustrious few. Without a doubt, my days in Bombay Scottish have been some of the most blissful and carefree in my life. I still remember the P.T. period where after the mandatory ten minutes of stretching exercises under the giant banyan tree, we were released like birds from a cage into the school playground to play football, the English class where we laboured for a whole week just to write a single passage as concisely as possible (the results are self-evident don't you think?) or the music period where we sang like canaries. In 1986, my mother was transferred to the Free University, West Berlin, W. Germany as part of the Indo-German scientific exhange program. She was based there for a year and 2 months. In October, 1986, my brother, my father and I went to visit her there for about 2.5 months, and also ended up touring most of Western Europe. On my return to Berlin, on account of compulsory German schooling laws, I attended the Grundschule am Rudesheimer Platz for about a month. It was an unforgettable experience interacting with German kids my age. They were just studying English, so most of our communication was done by sign language. Somewhere in between all this, in 1986, my family and I shifted residence to Seven Bungalows, Versova in North-West Bombay. One of the main attractions of this place was the Versova beach situated nearby .... unfortunately, it was so polluted that the cast of Baywatch would have emerged more dirty while running on the beach than swimming in the ocean. In 1987, we shifted once again to Anushaktinagar, the residential colony of BARC in the North-East part of Bombay. This place is like an oasis in the midst of overcrowded Bombay, with its open green spaces and well-planned dwellings. In 1988, I shifted schools from Bombay Scottish and joined the Atomic Energy Central School in Anushaktinagar. After that, I graduated to the Atomic Energy Junior College in Anushaktinagar with Electronics as my specialisation. Once that was through, I went on to graduate in Physics from the V.E.S. College, Chembur. After that was completed, faced with a choice of doing an MBA in Pune or entering the world of Information Technology, I went on to complete my Masters in Computer Software and Applications (MCSA) from the K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, Vidyavihar. I graduated out of it in June, 1999. |
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