Things Ravi Pratap Is Up To

So it’s official. Tomorrow is my last day at Morgan Stanley and in the weeks that follow, I begin the process of leaving New York behind to setup my new home in Washington, DC where I join Hillcrest Labs, a young technology startup.
A lot of people have asked me why I am doing this and [...]

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So I decided to jump onto the Flickr bandwagon and I have to say that I am already quite impressed with some its coolness. In particular, I think this is a perfect way for me [...]

Changing your cellphone number is a pretty disruptive thing. Everybody that you know suddenly finds that you have disappeared off the face of this planet leaving no clue of your whereabouts. When in the past you considered yourself popular, now you have nothing to do on Friday nights. Informing everybody of your new number can [...]

Starting today, the official clique of “people with white wires hanging from their ears and disappearing into their jackets” has a new member – yours truly.
Faithful readers of my blog (who are a dwindling species no doubt given how often I actually end up posting here) will be astute enough to note that it [...]

Every year in the winter, just like the birds migrate south to warmer climate zones, I make my annual trip to India to spend time with family, friends and amongst a billion other people in a land I call home.
This time, I am going to be in India in 5 different cities over a period [...]

I really like the last 6 weeks of the year in America. The weather begins to start getting really cold [the hot coffee that you sip on at a Starbucks window and look at the people outside is that much more stimulating], people pull out all their woollens [which essentially means that the only colours [...]

It’s been a while since I did any rambling in these parts of the Web. The kind I used to indulge in when I had a daily activity log where I would tell you everything from what time I woke up in the morning to what I had for lunch and what stunt my friends [...]

It’s that time of the year again. The time of the year that, as a child, I would spend the rest of the year waiting for. It’s Diwali!
I spoke to my mother last night and told her how much I wished I was in India to celebrate Diwali with her, my father, and Rahul. She [...]

So, it’s finally over. George W. Bush is President of the United States and although my opinion in all this doesn’t count (I am not an American citizen), I have to admit that I felt quite a bit of anxiety about the results on election night.
I stopped to think why this matters to me. Why [...]

There’s something a little troublesome about telling someone where you live when you happen to be somebody like me, a resident of the tri-state area [In the US, when one says "the tri-state area," they are usually referring to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut]. But it isn’t quite as simple as that, see.
The very [...]