Hi, I'm Bharat, from 🇮🇳
Me in Osaka with my first and most sincere love: Chocolate
📍in Osaka, with my first and most sincere love, chocolate
I'm a software engineer writing TypeScript and building tools for the web. I am interested in technology and societal improvement. I am curious about most things in the world, which compels me to travel extensively and write about it sometimes. Grateful for early failure.Here is a little bit more about me: I was born and went to school in Delhi, India. I was bright academically for most of school but had few friends – the computer was a big part of my life all through childhood and teenage. Technology was my biggest interest all through school, culminating with being president of the high school computer club on graduating school in 2015.I went to college in Patiala (a beautiful princely city in the north of India) to study computer engineering in 2016, after attempting to make it to the IITs (the best engineering colleges in India) for one extra attempt. I did not, and that remains an early, spectacular failure for which I am very grateful.I was greatly interested in societal improvement all through college years and got multiple internships in the area. I graduated in 2020 and found a job to pursue the same interest: to apply open-source technology for governments.I remain extremely thankful for the year and a half I spent at this job, since it provided opportunity to understand many facts of the world I was attempting to impact.My work with open-source coupled with a desire to separate work and play got me an offer to work full-time for an open-source company whose projects I had been using for many years.On the side, I work with an organisation called iSPIRT which is trying to bring about orbital shifts in Indian society. This is a core project.For almost four years, I worked at MUI to build with and learn from some of the great open-source developers of the world. I also got to travel a fair bit because of the remote nature of the job of which I am still trying to write about here.I was driven by the curiosity to experience life on the other end of the spectrum (in more ways than one) and thus have, as of writing, moved to Bangkok to work at Agoda. As of writing I can confirm that browsing through hotel and activity listings is an enjoyable perk at work.
In the 2nd century encyclopaedic compilation Vishnudharmottara that dealt with subjects as diverse as cosmology, painting and cuisine, there is a story of King Vajra who goes to meet Sage Markandeya. A quasi-Socratic dialogue between the two follows. Vajra asks Markandeya to teach him the art of making images or icons. In order to make icons, Markandeya says one must learn the art of painting. But a good painter, Markandeya continues, must also know the art of dancing—for both arts involve the knowledge of 'three worlds' (in modern translations, 'three dimensions'). Yet again, before Vajra gets his hopes too high, Markandeya instructs him that to be a good dancer, one must have a sense of music. And slowly, it dawns on Vajra that to master one art form is to cultivate awareness regarding another art form, in turn leading to mastering yet another and so on. At its limit, says Markandeya, to master painting is in effect indistinguishable from cultivating aptitude and talent for 'sculpture, dance, instrumental and vocal music, song composition, prose, poetry, literature, language, grammar, logic, aesthetics, theatrical arts and even theatre-architecture'. Painting then can be understood to contain musicality, music can reflect the preciseness of a logical argument while sculpture can be pregnant with as much meaning as poetry.
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