Things Ravi Pratap Is Up To

I’ve never been one to mark each passing year of my life with a loud celebration, but today, being the day I complete 3 decades, I feel the urge to draw some attention to the significant milestone that it is in my life.
A lot of people have been calling me through the day and some [...]

It’s been about 3 months since Vidya and I landed in Bangalore’s shiny new airport. I remember being welcomed by Bangalore’s cool air, and feeling a great sense of optimism about the life that lay ahead of me. That Thursday morning, the 14th of May, was the start of a new life in a city [...]

In the 28 years of my existence on this planet, there have been moments that have been imprinted in my mind so vividly that I visualize them as Technicolor films in slow motion that when replayed bring back a gush of emotions from those defining moments of my life. I may not be able to [...]

I will always remember the 4th of November, 2008 for the rest of my life. Not because I witnessed a momentous occasion in US history but that I witnessed and indeed felt part of a truly defining moment in the history of the world.
Barack Obama’s sweeping win of the US Presidential Election yesterday re-ignited the [...]

I’m sorry I’ve had to turn off comments on posts. I’m assuming, of course, that I still have readers left who want to leave me comments As it turns out, the spam problem has gotten really bad and I haven’t found the time to invest in getting the Captcha anti-spam plugin to work. [...]

We Indians sure are a melodramatic lot. If you live a while in India, it won’t take you long to conclude that it’s not just our movies that love to resort to it at the drop of a hat (I will admit though that the new wave of Indian cinema is different in this regard) [...]

I awake from my blogging slumber to record a very significant achievement in the life of my better half.
Just this past week, on the 26th of July, 2007, Vidya successfully defended her Ph.D thesis at Washington University in St. Louis. After 6 long, arduous years of a life dedicated to a single research problem in [...]

Although much of this blog is about the things I do and think about, I have always refrained from talking publicly about my love life. Well, this time I am making an exception to announce a big event in my life
On January 26th this year (Republic Day), I’m getting married to my girlfriend [...]

While we’re on the topic of my travels, perhaps I should mention that I recently got back from another business trip, which took me to a new corner of the globe. Having never been to the Far East (as a matter of fact, never east of Calcutta), I was naturally pretty excited when told that [...]

Hello, gentle reader.
Hmm, this is almost beginning to feel somewhat unfamiliar. Clearly, it’s been a long time since I sat down to organize my thoughts into a blog post. And to think I made a resolution in the general direction of trying to actually write far more often!
One of the challenges of writing after a [...]