My name is Satyajit Chetri. I am a programmer. I am also not just another programmer. Which makes me sound like I am full of myself, but over the past nine-odd years, I have also dabbled in a lot of other things.

  • I write a monthly column on comics and graphic novels for Rolling Stone India. Well, wrote. Currently on hiatus because of life-changes. I put up some of my reviews on the blog from time to time, but you can see most of them here.
  • I am a quizzer. I conduct quiz competitions. Between 2003 and 2011, I conducted a bunch of quizzes around different institutes all over India, including IITs Bombay, Kharagpur, Kanpur, Roorkee and Delhi, IIMs Indore, Calcutta, Lucknow and Ahmedabad,  Assam Engineering College (Guwahati), Punjab Engineering College (Chandigarh), the Mudra Institute of Communications (Ahmedabad), Birla Institute of Technology and Science(Pilani) and NIT Warangal. People liked my quizzes enough to call me a “respected quizmaster“. Who woulda thunk?
  • I am India’s first Comic Art Collector.
  • I love music.
  • I read. A lot. I do not really have link-based proof, so you’ll have to take my word for it.
  • If you’re not asleep yet, you might want to know a Hundred Random Things About Me. Part 1 and Part 2.

I moved to Los Angeles in early 2011, and am currently working with an automated translation company. My job involves a lot of hard drives, data processing using Java, Groovy, Grails and Hadoop.

If you’re reading this blog, there are a few things you should know:

  • This blog, or at least its earliest incarnation, began as an open letter from me to my future grandchildren.
  • It was originally on Livejournal. But  the site changed owners, policies and lost its early adopters faster than you can say “feature-dry”. I moved to my own domain just when blogging as a fad was replaced by Twitter and Facebook.
  • I am not really sure what the point of this blog is, at the moment. But I like writing here from time to time.
  • Feel free to drop me an email at beatzo AT gmail DOT com. Or you could just comment on one of the posts, and I’ll get an automatic email. Isn’t life grand?