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"I can live with doubt and
uncertainty and not knowing - I think it's much more interesting to
live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. I have
approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of
certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of
anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether
it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might
mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it
out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an
answer. I don't have to... I don't feel frightened by not knowing
things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any
purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly.
It doesn't frighten me." --- Richard Feynman
If you happen to have a map of India, and you search for the location
with 20°15' N latitude and 85°52' E longitude, you will find my
homecity Bhubaneswar,
which also happens to be the capital of the eastern Indian state of Orissa. If you
already clicked on the link and also followed a few others down the
tree by now, you have possibly discovered by yourself that it is a
beautiful city with lots and lots of temples, art, architecture and
sculptures; a feast for the culturally inclined.
Now coming back to my own story, I had my first 10 years of education
(1985-1996) at Stewart School, Bhubaneswar. I completed the next two
years of higher secondary education at BJB College, Bhubaneswar. In
1998, I joined the undergraduate program in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur and completed my Bachelor of Technology in 2002. In
2003 I moved to the United States to pursue higher education at the
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. I completed my Masters
program at Yale in 2005 and then moved to the Greater Boston area, where
I have been living and working since then.
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