Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:23:01 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 03:42:45 GMT Content-length: 1901 Vivek Narasayya -- Personal Information

Personal Information

I'm a graduate student in the Deptarment of Computer Science at the University of Washington.

My roots

My home town is a small place called Sakleshpur, in the state of Karnataka in India. Back in 1956, after his retirement, my grandfather bought some land near Sakleshpur and developed a coffee estate. The area around Sakleshpur is ideal for growing coffee, and most of the coffee grown and exported by India comes from this region. It's a mountainous region with volcanic soil and heavy (100+ inches a year) rainfall. The estate is now being run by my parents. One day, I'll be there too.

I grew up in Bangalore (formerly known as the Garden City -- now known as the Silicon City), which is the capital of Karnataka. It's about 150 miles east of Sakleshpur. Bangalore has changed a whole lot in the past 5 years, with all those high-tech multinationals opening shop and pouring in big bucks.

Other Stuff

Indiaworld has up to date news from India, and articles from Indian newspapers and magazines.


My interests