 	  My home country is 	  <A href="http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/India">India</A>. Though 	  I'm originally from the state of 	  <A href="http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/India/States_and_Regions/Kerala/">Kerala</A>, 	  I've stayed all my life in 	  <A href="http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/India/States_and_Regions/West_Bengal/Calcutta/">Calcutta</A>. 	  I studied at <A HREF="http://www.lwbbs.com/dbpc">Don Bosco School, Calcutta</A> 	  which is run by <A href="http://www.sdb.org/">The Salesians of Don Bosco</A>. 	  I did my undergrad at 	  <A href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~shubu/iitk/iitk.html">IIT Kanpur</A> with 	  my major in Computer Science &amp; Engineering. I'm currently a first-year 	  graduate student supported by a teaching assistantship in the 	  <A href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/">Department of Computer Sciences</A> at 	  the <A href="http://www.wisc.edu/">University of Wisconsin-Madison</A>, staring 	  down the barrel of a Ph.D. in either 	  <A HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/uwarch">Computer Architecture</A> or 	  <A href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~mds/uwpl.html">Programming 	  Languages</A>.<BR>
