I am in my yard in the MadRiver flood plain, a sunny day in Arcata, California, facing west toward the Pacific Ocean. To the east are the coastal
mountains of Northwestern
California, to the
South the KingRange and the LostCoast
I author and maintain this site
My father was from India, my mother from Britain. I was born and spent my childhood
and youth in India – mostly in the university town of Kharagpur; my father was a Professor at the
Indian Institute of Technology, there. I have lived in Delaware, and upstate New York, Texas, California. I have hiked in wild and natural New York, Texas, New
Mexico, Colorado, Mexico, California. My undergraduate education was at
the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur in West Bengal. I have a Master’s degree in Applied
Mathematics and a Bachelor’s and a PHD in mechanical / aerospace engineering
– with a focus on mathematics and science – from the University of Delaware.
I have: been a university professor –
Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Texas – Austin, Humboldt
State University – California, have run all phases of a restaurant, provided
direct care of acute psychiatric services, studied and been involved in
development of the traditions of knowledge and of being
My brother
Robin
lives in London
and my daughter
Carissa
in Austin, Texas
