Miscellaneous:

In memory of my father Dilip Atre.

I am a big fan of music in its various forms. I have received basic training in the Indian classical music, and I have been told that I can sing pretty well. I also like listening to and singing the Western pop music. I read humor, biographies, history (of various kinds, political, social, evolutionary), fitness etc.

I like reading the phdcomic stripes, and this one is my favorite: Grad Student Etiquettes.

Some favorite quotations:

• "An academic career in which a person is forced to produce scientific writings in great amounts creates a danger of intellectual superficiality." - Albert Einstein

• "A question that sometimes drives me hazy; am I or are the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein

• "You have a moral responsibility when you have been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently." - J. K. Rowling

• "Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged people who just kept on working." - Douglas MacArthur

• "An year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God." - Alan J. Perlis

• "An year spent in database query optimization is enough to make one believe that God does play dice!" - Medha Atre :-)