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About Me — Shashi Sastry
Engineer at 20 -> IT Architect at 35 ->Writer at 55? -> Philosopher at 60??
My life, in brief
I've had two lives, am living the third, and looking forward to the fourth.
The first was an engineer, born and bred in India, Pune. After ten years working for an industrial manufacturer, Thermax, I left for Australia when I was 30.
That began my second life as an IT coder, designer, architect and finally, an enterprise architect. It's lasted over 21 years, mainly in IBM. It was also an Australian life for 13 of those years. My newlywed wife Shalu joined me in Sydney. We had our lovely kids Preetika and Tarun and lived a spiffing life. Many close friends, picnics, beach outings, get-togethers, weekend cricket. Splendid.
Now I've begun my third life — as a writer. It's been ten years since we moved back to India for family reasons. I suppose the writing bug was inevitable, given my long love of reading and English. For the last two to three years, I've been thinking of myself more and more as a writer, material evidence notwithstanding. There is still much to live in this one. It's an adolescent stage.
I hope to have a fourth and final life - as a philosopher. Perhaps an amateur one, but a serious one.
