Anirban's Corner of the Web

About Me

Greetings!

I am Anirban Banerjee. I live and work in Bangalore, India .I was born and grew up in Calcutta, Bengal,in India and I have spent the biggest and best chunk of my life there. I passed my 10th standard exams from St. Xavier's Collegiate School in Calcutta (1991). Earlier, I also went to Julian Day School and De Nobili School in Dhanbad, Bihar. I did my Higher Secondary (Standard 12) course from St. Xavier's College - located in the same campus as the school (1993) and my BE in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta (1997). After that I joined Indian Institute of Science (Centre of Electronic Design and Technology) for my Masters in Electronic Design (passed out in January 1999).

At present I work at Broadcom India Pvt. Ltd. , located at Residency Road, Bangalore, as Staff Design Engineer.

By nature, I am incorrigibly old-fashioned, hopelessly whimsical and lazy; everyone has tried to better me, but I remain true to my own natural self.

My interests and hobbies are numerous and varied - from archaeology through to Windoze (the Micro$oft variety) programming, and almost everything in between. See the My Interests page for more information.

To top all, this homepage is taking up some of my quality time nowadays.

Getting married

I got married to Ms. Purbasha Mukherjee in a traditional arranged marriage on 19th January 2001 in Calcutta. We returned to Bangalore on 27th January, barely able to complete all the ceremonies, which last for more than one week. I rejoined my office on 29th and she took over as The Housewife.

We went on a company-sponsored picnic at the Orange County, Coorg on 3rd March and spent two enjoyable days in a houseboat.

Somebody has said that gratitude is a canine disease to which the species Homo Sapiens is almost totally immune. I agree wholeheartedly. I love dogs. I love them in all formats and shapes and sizes, frizzy poms, pesky little spitzes, roadside 'strays' (much to my wife's displeasure) to the ever lovable Golden Retriever. I would have had a few of the canine species here in our home, but with both my wife and I out for the better part of the day, that would be difficult.

Anirban is the Bengali form of the Sanskrit word anirvANa. It has in it three parts - the negation 'a', the upasarga 'ni' signifying 'to wane' or 'to relax' and the root 'vA' meaning 'to blow'(also the root for air and wind). As a whole, it means 'that which cannot be blown away or extinguished'. This adjective is applied especially to fire and light (Tagore's anirban agnishikha...). This name is so popular in my generation in Calcutta (Kolkata) that I've had a classmate called Anirban, and sometimes even an Anirban Banerjee, all thoughout my school life.