As far as I can tell, this is the only book that outlines the grammar and vocabulary of my language, a dialect of Konkani spoken by the Chitrapur Saraswats (but it does so poorly, so much so that the title is a veritable misnomer, and only those who have some experience with the language would benefit at all from it).
Author: Aiyagal, Baindoor Deorai
Title: Konkani Self Taught / by Baindoor Deorai Aiyagal
Published: Bombay: Konkan Cultural Association, 1968
I was born in Mumbai, India and grew up in Saudi Arabia. When I was 14, I came to America to attend Western Reserve Academy, a private boarding
school
near Cleveland,
Ohio. I graduated in 1999 and began college at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 2003, I left Harvard University with a B.A. and
M.S., both in computer science, and a minor in French language and literature. In July of 2003, I came to California to work at Google in Mountain
View (near San Francisco). At Google, I focus on user interface architecture and design (what's that?), primarily for mobile devices. I live in East Palo Alto,
only 4 miles from Google's headquarters.
My parents and virtually all my family live in India. My father is retired, after having worked
in the Middle East for about 30 years. After teaching in Saudi Arabia for more than 18 years, my mother recently moved back to India and now stays with my father. They both live in 8/7 Talmaki Wadi, in Mumbai and take care of my dear grandmother full-time. My
brother, Gaurav, graduated from Dartmouth College in 2001 and from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 2005. He is now in his
second year of residency in
neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio (a top 3 hospital in the United States).
His wife, Sara, graduated from Kent State University in 2003, and is now a second-year law student at Case Western
Reserve University. They both
live in Cleveland, and I miss both of them dearly.
I work in the United States on an H1-B visa (America's "work visa"). My brother and Sara are citizens of the United
States. Samvita and I are citizens of India.
Someday I would like to be a Bollywood movie star. My favorite movie
star is Hrithik Roshan.
My email address is my first name followed by @post.harvard.edu. My cell
phone number is 617-270-6553. I prefer texts and emails to phone calls, and I don't check my voicemail.
Picture summary:
Where I've been working for over 3 years now:
Where my brother is a neurosurgeon:
Where I went to college and grad school:
Where my brother studied medicine (M.D.):
Where my brother went to college:
Where my brother, Sara, and I went to high school:
