Academics

• Resume / Profiles
  • Curriculum Vitae (PDF).
  • Profile on Community of Science.
  
  
• Undergraduate Education
  • Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.
  • BITS Alumni Association
  • If you're a BITS alumnus, check out the Embryo Project and contribute.

Personal

• About
  • A note about my name - My given name is Shashanka, I do not use a family name or a surname. (However, most people since grad school have come to know me as 'Madhu'.)
  • My name in Kannada script (unicode) - ಮಧುಸೂದನ ಶಶಾಂಕ
  • Hometown - Bangalore.
  • Language - Kannada.
  • My family tree - PDF
  • My ancestors' migration routes - (from the Genographic Project).
    • Paternal (Y-chromosome) results - I belong to Haplogroup R*. [ Map ]
      Path: M168 → M89 → M9 → M45 → M207 (Haplogroup R*)
    • Maternal (Mitochondrial DNA) results - I belong to Haplogroup M*. [ Map ]
      Path: L1/L0 → L2 → L3 → Haplogroup M*
  • Picture of my brain.
  
  
• NGOs and other causes I support
  • Food for Education. NGO involved in supplying mid-day meals to school children in India.
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation. I'm a member of EFF.
  • Defective by design. I'm part of this campaign against DRM technologies which are defective by design.
  • Fight Global Warming (Watch the ad on youtube). You can start by switching to energy-efficient light bulbs.
  • NJ Clean Energy Program. I buy 100% renewable energy by opting for the CleanPower Choice Program.
  • The Genographic Project by National Geographic - A study of human journey.
  • Gapminder. Human Development Statistics with a wonderful Visualization Tool.
  
  
• Kannada Resources
  • Learn how to read and write kannada.
  • Kannada literature
    Kannada Saahitya, Kannada Saahitya Puta, Kulki's kannada page, Songs, Riddles and Proverbs, photos, History
  • Kannada Kasturi Online English-Kannada and Kannada-English dictionary.
  • Baraha Transliteration Software - English to Kannada, Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi.
  • Generate Kannada Unicode.
  • Kannada Lipi Enthusiasts LaTeX for Kannada.
  • Kannada Localization Initiative Kannada projects on sourceforge.
  
  
• Miscellaneous
  • Firefox search plugins for BU google search and BU library search.
  • la la Share music and support artists.
  • Pandora A great music recommendation service. A sample of what I've discovered is on the right sidebar.
  • Kamat's Potpourri The History, Mystery, and Diversity of India. A wonderful website.
  • Pushpinder Singh - delivers tasty Indian lunch every day in Boston/Cambridge (call 617.319.4392).