Simplifier, Gardener, Trainer
After visiting Jeevika Ashram, Jabalpur alone in Nov ’25 for the Nature, Culture & Economy course and with family in Jan ’26 for the Ashram’s annual Basant Utsav program, I wanted to visit in the summer again, combining it with our visit to my hometown. The earlier thought was just to visit and stay at the Jeevika … Read more
In the previous blog I shared my experience and learnings from the first 2 days of the Art of Hosting Training, which I attended in Bengaluru (7-10 Dec’24). This blogs covers the last 2 days of the training. While here, I would like to briefly mention about the diversity of the participants. We had participants … Read more
One great thing leads to another and that is how landed up at the Art of Hosting Training’24 Bengaluru, earlier this month (7-19th Dec’24) . I got its leads from one of the participants of the #Play14 event. After attending the training, it feels as the missing piece of my formal education is now complete. … Read more
Last week (5th – 10th Oct’24) we had heavy rains and winds in and around Bengaluru and both of our farms have some negative impacts. One of the melia dubia tree had fallen in the Dhanvi farm and damaged our trellis structure. After chopping the tree we have kept the wood in open for now. … Read more
From the time I read Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. which is more than 10-12 years before; I was kind of waiting to turn 42 to uncover the eventual answer of why I am doing anything and what difference does it make and to whom? For those who have not read the book … Read more
Today I completed one year of being on my own. In 2004, after graduating from college and doing brief experiment with a startup I came to Pune, looking for a job. I failed clearing the interviews of many MNCs. In the last two and a half years of my college I spent most of my … Read more
I did my second paid workshop in Bangalore on 12th and 13th March. I had the similar count of participation as last time. Most of participants had some prior experience with Linux so it was much easy and I was well prepared as well. So things went more smooth than last time. One of the participant from the … Read more
After doing free containers (Docker) workshop in Bangalore, Pune and Chennai; the next stop was Hyderabad which was scheduled on 13th Feb’16. Getting the audience and community space at Hyderabad was not as simple as other places because I have never worked there and did not have much community connections. When I scheduled it I … Read more
After leaving my full time job at Red Hat I started offering some free workshops in different cities on India. As currently I am staying in Bangalore and stayed in Pune for 8 years before moving, I choose both of these places to start with. Later I’ll be doing the free workshops in Chennai, Hyderabad and … Read more
Yesterday (2nd Dec’15) was my last day at Red Hat (again). I left Red Hat in Dec’08 to join a startup and then joined back on Sept’12 . This time I worked in the performance engineering team, which does performance evaluation of all the Red Hat products. It was best team I worked so far. I did performance … Read more