This page had been left ignored since long on my blog. The usual 'this is a sample wordpress about me…' used to appear here. Today, I am very free, so thought to scribble something here. Lets see what comes out.

Me. Who am I? My name is Anurag Singh Rana, and for some people it is Rinku, some call me Anu, Megx calls me Nemo, some pronounce it as Anu Bhai, some call me Rana, my juniors say Anurag Sir, my seniors say Anurag, and some idiots call me Tullu too.

I am a 20 year old guy who is a to-be-software-engineer studying in a supposed-to-be-great information technology institute named International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. I am not a 'hyderabadi' as such, its not my hometown that is. My home is in Dewas (Madhya Pradesh), but I've spent 13 years of my life in Indore, so you could call me a Indori.

I was born on Thursday, 30th of January 1986 in Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital, Indore at 9:29 AM. I am left handed by birth, but I was 'taught to use the right'. I used to eat with the left hand, but by constant practice, I've now mastered eating 'only by the right hand'. I am a right handed batsman too. Still, I write using the left, I use spoons using the left, I bowl using left, I play badminton, tennis, TT using the left and so on. I am even trying to learn to use the mouse using the left now.

I spent the early days of my life in the Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, in a small town called Sardarpur. My mom and dad had been posted as doctors there. After some years, when I was grown up enough to take admission in first standard, my parents moved to Indore. I took admission in The Daly College. Since then, I've been living in Indore. Too long eh?

Most of you would think that by now, I'd know the entire map of Indore, but it is not so. Though I know most of the places in Indore, but still I don't know a lot of them which I am expected to. There are a few reasons for it. One of them is that I don't generally remember paths and places easily and the other is that I never needed to go to those places as I didn't know many people in Indore.

I attempted a lot of competitive exams in my 12th class. I got through in almost all of them. The best I could get was IIIT, Hyderabad, Computer Science and Engineering. I took admission here in July 2003. Its been 3 years now, and I'd be graduatiing next year if I don't decide to continue my studies here further. I am not the topper of the class if you see the CGPA, though not too bad either. Its very easy to get a 100% by just eating sleeping living in the library and thinking of studies and books all the time. Its good that some people do it, but I think that this life is worth living, not only at the 'destinations' but also during the journey. (I guess I heard this line from somewhere, just remembered it, fits here well).

I am not a very big partyer or something. I also don't smoke or drink or dope. I am just a normal guy and I celebrate in my own way, with my friends. I like to talk to new people that come in my life, and I really really care for them. Most people would treat the newcomers in their life as 'just someone they know', but if I am genuinely interested, I really look forward to talking to new people. For me, the internet and meeting people in person doesn't make much of a difference. I mean, they are just media of communication. What I feel is, in both cases there is a HUMAN sitting at the other end, and I believe that he/she would also feel the same as I do.

I am really forgetful about things. I forget birthdays, exams, classes, lendings, borrowings, paths and places (as I mentioned), faces, names, and anything that can possibly come to your mind (I even forgot what I forget). I can't help it, it just happens. One of the main reasons for it is the great amount of activity that goes on in my mind. Most people, what I think, just see and react in the environment they are in, and so they are mentally balanced and can remember things. For me, different things, some memories, some day dreams, some new ideas, and what not, just keep popping all the time I am awake and even after that. Due to this, I just forget to live in the present and tend to forget these materialistic details. It does fit my sun-sign of being an Aquarian though.

I am generally calm and balanced when dealing with people, both strangers and friends. There are many reasons for this, what I believe, exceptional calmness.

• First thing is that people cannot generally come really close to my heart very easily. This means that people think that they can hurt me and tend to act based on that assumption, but because I don't even care, they fail to do so.
• Second thing is that I don't assume anything till someone explicitly says something. If there was a girl who loved me and its clearly evident from her actions, I wouldn't assume it and act. She will have to 'literally' say it before I start believing it. Am something like a artificial intelligence based robot that works on 'facts'.
• Third thing is that I generally don't go by only the harsh words of a person for me. A person can be harsh for many reasons. If I also retaliate violently, it'd only lead to more chaos. I, instead, try to react calmly and make him understand my point of view. I noticed that generally the other person agrees or the other person gets too irritated and leaves. This way, I don't have to keep shut about my own thoughts, nor I have to lose my temper and spoil the rest of the time in mood swings.

Am I committed? I've been hiding this answer since long now. But there are several reasons. Yes, I am committed to someone, but not in the way you interpret it. I love her and so does she (as in, she loves me), but there are a lot of hurdles to cross. We're still quite young to come to conclusions right now. Some people think I've just left drinking milk bottles, its not the age to get committed, lol. Anyways, its not just hurdles, not just time, not just other people, not just family, its me and her who have to be convinced again and again. When we write a program, we run it for an input and another and so on. How can we be sure in one go about the whole life? It might work for some occasion, what if it doesn't work for another? I just want to make sure that we're sure that we're sure that we're sure….

I am not a very very motivated researcher, but, since long, my life's aim has been to make an Operating System of my own. I hadn't known Linus Torwalds, but even before that, I used to think about doing what I told. And not basically a research based operating system but a 'real good' operating system that people use. I think its too big a dream, but I still want to make it happen.

Regarding doing a post graduation in research, I am not too keen. Its because no post graduation can make me learn how to make an operating system, and I am not very motivated to burn my precious life in other research (say for example Computer Vision at the moment). I don't want to say that I am not interested, basically I want to say is that for me research in Vision is as bad as or as good as doing a job in an MNC. I'd really love if I get to do some work in Operating Systems.

So just a mention that I am specializing in Visual Information Processing. That is to say that I'll get a BTech(Honors) degree in Computer Vision.

I guess thats about it. Not anything more can be written to bore you. You can talk to my friends and know more about me, or just read my blog/website or you can talk to me. My website has a lot of 'about me stuff'. You can contact me through

1. unpredictable_rulz AT yahoo.com
2. Anurag Singh Rana on orkut.com
3. anurag_s_r AT hotmail.com
4. anurag_rana AT students.iiit.ac.in
5. call me on my cell
6. send a letter to IIIT, Hyderabad
7. write a comment here or on my site.
8. okay fine, am I the president, there is no 8th way!

I hope you didn't get bored. Take care. Ciao.