“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

-William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act IV, Sc. V

I am a software professional, freelancer and an artist (at least, I like to call myself that). I work fulltime on trading applications at Wall St but pursue serious blogging and web development in my spare time. I have recently started freelancing tennis articles and am a devout fan of Mr. Roger Federer.  Actually, I started writing tennis articles solely because of the love for his game. My other passions include poetry and paintings – I like to exercise my pen and paintbrush when butterflies strike my mind and at times, I have created some works I am very proud of. These can be found in my ‘art blog‘ which is dedicated to paintings – oil, watercolor and anything and everything pictorial. My love for poetry is attributed to the profound ghazals of Ghalib. My ‘moonstruck blog‘ focuses mostly on urdu and hindi poetries. The more I think about Ghalib’s poetry, the more meaningless everything else seems. My writings can be found under pseudonym ‘eternity‘ on my blog page. I am addicted to reading books and adore Ayn Rand, Orwell, Shakespeare and Wodehouse.

I am based in Jersey/New York area and like to stare at the downtown Manhattan skyline often. The header image on my blog is my tribute to the most mesmerizing line of concrete blocks in the world. My home and heart, of course, lies in India.

I guess that more or less summarizes my motivations behind this blog. I hope you enjoy reading it.

-Nistha Tripathi