A boring sketch

I am Tulsidas Harikrishnan (T.Harikrishnan)
I have basically three (or four) skills:

I am a Professinal Geologist

I am a self made IT man

I write on technology and developmental issues

I also ponder on the reality beyond our preception

I have done a few things so far:

About 17 years of mineral exploration

Published about 25 technical papers in reputed journals

About 15 articles in popular journals and magazines

A few verses in English (unpuplished and never will be)

Done software development, hardware repairs, networking, network adminisration, web development

Delivered lectures and workshops on open source software

Conducted computer and software training programmes

Web published some ancient sanskrit manuscripts on the facets of reality beyond our preception.

I also

Was born in India (Trivandrum or Thiruvanantapuram, Kerala)in 1963

Went to Nirmala Bhavan School, Trivandrum for primary school

Attended St.Joseph's, Trivandrum for high school

Got some medals in athletics, drama, story writing, fancy dress

Was a Boy Scount (Navel Wing)

Was in National Cadet Crops (NCC) Air Wing

Got admitted in Government Arts College, Trivandrum for pre-degree

Sucessfully completed B.Sc with Geology as major from University College, Trivandrum

Finally got a M.Sc from Univesity of Kerala in Geology in 1988

Was active in geoscientific debating society at Department of Geology

Pursued a course in Creative Writing in English

Did two years of research in coastal morphodynamics (and still is in the path of a Ph.D....)

Saw a PC in 1987

Was active in student politics (unsucessfully contested for a student membership seat in University Senate)

Was active in many socio-cultural forums

Learned some Yoga, TM, and Palmistry

Learned some traditional martial arts from Masters of Kerala style

Was initiated (not formally) in the path of spirtuality by the Masters in the disiplic sucsession of Lord Chaithnya

My Professional track:

Joined Atomic Minerals Division (now Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, India in 1988.

For the first seven years did detailed uranium exploration (exploratory drilling, detailed mapping)in Northeastern region, Shillong.

Presently working in more or less in the same field in Southern region, Bangalore

Also is in Datacentre, which looks into all the IT needs

My family:

Wife - Sawitha Harikrishnan, Ph.D (Organizational Behavior)

Two daughters - Srilakshmi (11 years) and Meenakshi (9 years)

I hope to peserve a saga of my activities here so that I or someone daring enough can come and ponder over some of my thoughts. No satisfaction guaranteed.