About meEdit

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."-- Oscar Wilde

I am a Ph.D. student in the Educational Technology inter-disciplinary program at the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT-B) and I'm currently focused on enhancing reading skills in children using technology and a better pedagogy.

I am a salesman of ideas. If I were not busy selling the idea of a better world through education I'm not sure where else I would have ended. Right now I'm also in the middle of fulfilling my bucket list so suggestions are welcome.

When I'm not busy saving the world I volunteer around 6hrs a week running a fitness training program for the students on the IITB campus, practice parkour, organise cycling sessions and dance when no one is watching.

You can contact me on +91 9969249984 (Mumbai) or +91 9448810822 (Bangalore) or email me at vincentvikram at gmail dot com

Social networking:

My virtual persona can be found on Facebook and Twitter and Diaspora

Webpages:

Personal: http://swatantra.org/

Free Software Movement Karnataka http://fsmk.org/

Free Software Movement of India http://fsmi.in/

Educational Technology Inter-disciplinary program http://www.et.iitb.ac.in/

Academic logs http://acawiki.org/User:Vincentvikram

You can download my (slightly outdated) CV/resume from here.

Bug reportsEdit

Links to some projects that I have contributed to.

PapersEdit

ActivismEdit

Issues that I am actively involved with.

BooksEdit

I have been inspired by a colleague to maintain a list of the books I read or in the process of reading.

RecordsEdit

I was a part of the Can You Say Beat Box?! The Sequel! world record attempt at getting into the Guinness World Record for the most number of beatboxers. Oh yes! the ensemble director happens to be my brother ;)

Update: The record has been officially announced on the Guinness website at
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-2000/largest-human-beatbox-ensemble/

Update 2: The record was broken by Sholomo recently :)