Things Ravi Pratap Is Up To

There are few things in the world that I genuinely dread and avoid strenuously like a plague. Before I came to the US, since I lived at home and was mostly in school / college and since my parents didn’t exactly enjoy moving either, I had managed to get away with experiencing the process of [...]

Simply too good. [Calvin And Hobbes © 2003 Universal Press Syndicate]

I am looking for a job as a Project Leader / Software Engineer involved with product development and design. I have a wide variety of interests (which stem from previous work I have done as well as the exposure I have gained in grad school through my research work) – operating systems, compilers, distributed object [...]

Out here in Missouri, there aren’t really too many things one can do outdoors. No mountains to trek on, no beaches to surf on, no lake to swim in – nothing, really. So the few places that do exist where one can actually do something in nature are literally flooded with people during the summer. [...]

I don’t think I can quite remember at what age I began to become conscious of the seasons and their effect on our lives but Summer has always been for me, the time of the year with no school to go to, no History lessons to read, no Hindi classes to sit through, nothing! It [...]

When I left off last, I was hours away from flying into Detroit on my maiden flight on Southwest Airlines. Since I had no idea what to expect, I asked Vidya the Southwest veteran about what was different about the journey. I was promptly informed that the flight would be more like a bus ride [...]