Atul Gogtay
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Location | Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Introduction | I want to understand existence. Professionally I am a self-employed teacher, and an ex-practicing aeronautical engineer, equipped with a bachelor of technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur. I have been interested (till date) in, physics for 35 years, biology for 28 years, the mysteries of the 'self' for 26 years, philosophy (both eastern and western) for 25 years, and day to day life for 20 years. |
| Interests | Philosophy, pure sciences, spiritualism |
| Favorite movies | Close encounters of the third kind, Apollo 13 , Jurassic park |
| Favorite music | Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Jean Michael Jarre, Jean Luc Ponty, Hemant Kumar compositions sung by Lata Mangeshkar |
| Favorite books | Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (Robert Pirsig), ATLAS SHRUGGED (Ayn Rand), Raja-yoga (Swami Vivekananda), My experiments with truth(Mohandas Gandhi) , Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler), The origin of species (Charles Darwin) |