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Well, there is nothing much to talk about us. We both
hail from Kerala, a small beautiful state in south India. We were staying at California,
when we started developing this home site. California in many ways resemble our home land,
kerala. (If you do not believe this, think of Kerala's
geography with the Ghats on the one side and sea on the other and you know California has
more or less the same geographical features.) After California we lived in Chicago for another year or so before returning back to India in 1999 April. It was almost five hundred years ago that Vasco Da Gama came around Cape of Good Hope to reach our home land. But it was just thirty months ago that we came around Amsterdam to reach the United States. Both events of course had tremendous historical impact as you can see. |
| My original name was and (still) is T K
Ashok Kumar. In the last thirty years, I never felt the need to change my name in any
manner. But when I applied for the Passport itself I started getting signs of a forced
metamorphosis. When I reached the US it underwent further traumatic surgery to result in
what I have now, "Ashok T Kurup". Not to say that I lost my hard earned prefix
'Dr.' also. I started my schooling at HSLPS Kudamaloor, where I spent just the 1st year and fought my way to St. Mary's UP School Kudamaloor, despite the fact that my mom was teaching at HSLPS. After 4th standard, I moved to CMS College High School, which is incidentally one of the oldest schools in South India (almost 180 Years old).. I did my Pre-Degree (+2) at CMS College Kottayam, which also has produced some of the greatest people India has ever seen (Dr. George Sudarshan, KPS Menon, Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan et al.). I did my B.tech in Electronics from Regional Engineering College Calicut. Then I worked for almost three years in CMC Ltd. Which was considered to be IBM successor at that time. The last stage of my formal education was at IIM Bangalore, where I acquired a doctorate (Fellowship) in International Marketing. I am, for the last few years, working with Ramco Systems, a Madras based ERP Solutions provider. |
For over two years, I was at
Ramco's US offices in California and Chicago. At present I am back at Ramco in Chennai,
India. Sandhya (my 'Sanju') is my wife and She was a lawyer when I married her.. She hails from Vaikom, the famous temple town in Kerala. Her name also underwent major changes during passage to USA, and gave way to her parents' name to result in Nalinakumari S. Muraleedharan Nair. More than her name, she changed her career from law to software during her US stint. Her initial Schooling was at Kulasekhara- mangalam LPS and NIM UPS at Vaikom, She completed her 10th from Govt. GHS Vaikom and joined St. Xavier's Alwaye and NSS College Cherthala to earn her graduate degree. Led by her natural instinct for arguments(!!??) she acquired her LL.B from Govt. Law College Ernakulam . She started her career in law at Munsiff and Magistrate courts at Vaikom. When we left India, she was practicing at the High Court of Madras. She acquired Sun's Certification in Java Programming (SCJP) and Microsoft's Certification in SQL Server (MCP) and undertook a few projects for Fremont City Corporation during her stay in the US. At present, she is working at AmitySoft Technologies in Chennai as a consultant. Our Interests, as is probably evident from the Content of our web page, include Singing, Poetry, Philosophy, Driving, Mathematics and Software. |
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Ashok T Kurup |
