Carleton Community:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scientific Community:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Outreach\/Pop-sci:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I was born in Cuttack, Orissa but grew up mostly in New Delhi, India<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As is ‘typical’ back home, I grew speaking three languages (Oriya, English, Hindi), picked up some Punjabi by virtue of living in Delhi<\/a>, some Assamese from a couple of years in Assam, Bengali by association with Bengali speakers and by triangulation (if you know Hindi, Oriya, Assamese, you can get there), and finally some Maithili from my Bihari friends (these aren’t dialects, almost every language I mentioned has a distinct vocabulary, and in fact, different script). I also had 4 formal years of Sanskrit at school, of which I retain the bare minimum. All of this still doesn’t help me understand most of the languages spoken in India<\/a> or in Indian restaurants in the US, for that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have since lived, and been associated with colleges and universities, in Delhi, Providence (RI), Austin (TX), Toronto (ONT) and Houston (TX). I also spent a substantial chunk of time visiting the California Bay Area. After a couple of years of living near the lakes in Minneapolis, in the final transition, now live in tiny Northfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I grew up playing cricket<\/a> and was pretty obsessive about it, as were most of my friends, to be honest — we broke plenty of neighbourhood windows in the process. [for those who care, I played briefly on the same team as Shahrukh Khan<\/a> while in high school <\/em>]. I also played a bit of badminton [ one of my neighbourhood opponents was Shikha Swaroop<\/a>— I am not faking this strange Bollywood and childhood sports connection, promise!<\/em>], and soccer. After I left India, I continued with cricket for the International Cricket Club of Rhode Island (we played in a league based out of Boston). I also learned to love squash at Brown — at one point I was playing for an hour daily with James McKernan<\/a>. I didn’t keep up, and then started throwing out various joints when I played only occasionally. I have experimented with aikido, tai chi, yoga, and pilates. I am learning to enjoy cold-weather running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I used to irregularly change the quote in my email signature since 1998. Here’s a\u00a0subset<\/a>\u00a0of the quotes I have used. Facebook and social media took over that sort of outlet later, I guess<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carleton Community: Scientific Community: Outreach\/Pop-sci: Personal: I was born in Cuttack, Orissa but grew up mostly in New Delhi, India. As is ‘typical’ back home, I grew speaking three languages (Oriya, English, Hindi), picked up some Punjabi by virtue of living in Delhi, some Assamese from a couple of years in Assam, Bengali by association with Bengali speakers and by<\/p>\n\n
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I read avidly (it used to be a lot of fiction and little bursts of non-fiction, but now it’s the other way around for some reason; perhaps reality caught up with me), watch tons of movies, with my favorite being French films and listen to music incessantly. When I was in Austin I studied North Indian classical music with Anita and Stephen Slawek for about 3 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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![India<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAs is ‘typical’ back home, I grew speaking three languages (Oriya, English, Hindi), picked up some Punjabi by virtue of living in Delhi<\/a>, some Assamese from a couple of years in Assam, Bengali by association with Bengali speakers and by triangulation (if you know Hindi, Oriya, Assamese, you can get there), and finally some Maithili from my Bihari friends (these aren’t dialects, almost every language I mentioned has a distinct vocabulary, and in fact, different script). I also had 4 formal years of Sanskrit at school, of which I retain the bare minimum. All of this still doesn’t help me understand most of the languages spoken in India<\/a> or in Indian restaurants in the US, for that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI have since lived, and been associated with colleges and universities, in Delhi, Providence (RI), Austin (TX), Toronto (ONT) and Houston (TX). I also spent a substantial chunk of time visiting the California Bay Area. After a couple of years of living near the lakes in Minneapolis, in the final transition, now live in tiny Northfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMisc:<\/strong>I read avidly (it used to be a lot of fiction and little bursts of non-fiction, but now it’s the other way around for some reason; perhaps reality caught up with me), watch tons of movies, with my favorite being French films and listen to music incessantly. When I was in Austin I studied North Indian classical music with Anita and Stephen Slawek for about 3 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI grew up playing cricket<\/a> and was pretty obsessive about it, as were most of my friends, to be honest — we broke plenty of neighbourhood windows in the process. [for those who care, I played briefly on the same team as Shahrukh Khan<\/a> while in high school <\/em>]. I also played a bit of badminton [ one of my neighbourhood opponents was Shikha Swaroop<\/a>— I am not faking this strange Bollywood and childhood sports connection, promise!<\/em>], and soccer. After I left India, I continued with cricket for the International Cricket Club of Rhode Island (we played in a league based out of Boston). I also learned to love squash at Brown — at one point I was playing for an hour daily with James McKernan<\/a>. I didn’t keep up, and then started throwing out various joints when I played only occasionally. I have experimented with aikido, tai chi, yoga, and pilates. I am learning to enjoy cold-weather running.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI used to irregularly change the quote in my email signature since 1998. Here’s a\u00a0subset<\/a>\u00a0of the quotes I have used. Facebook and social media took over that sort of outlet later, I guess<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn memoriam Kishore Chandra Pattanayak<\/mark><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carleton Community: Scientific Community: Outreach\/Pop-sci: Personal: I was born in Cuttack, Orissa but grew up mostly in New Delhi, India. As is ‘typical’ back home, I grew speaking three languages (Oriya, English, Hindi), picked up some Punjabi by virtue of living in Delhi, some Assamese from a couple of years in Assam, Bengali by association with Bengali speakers and by<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t Read More <\/span> <\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arjendu.people.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arjendu.people.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arjendu.people.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arjendu.people.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arjendu.people.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/arjendu.people.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/arjendu.people.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arjendu.people.sites.carleton.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/people.carleton.edu\/~arjendu\/Apna\/Sadhu.jpg\"){kind=link}