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I would like to introduce myself as Shrinivas Sharangpani,
born in Ratnagiri, a coastal town in Maharashtra, India and at present working in a large automobile manufacturing company
in Pune, India. I have worked in various capacities as a metallurgist, value engineer and in areas like prototype planning
and manufacturing, quality assurance, troubleshooting and project planning.
- I spent some of my childhood in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India. Our family shifted to
Pune where I stay now. My father was an amazing person. He became completely blind during his youth but became a successful
teacher. He taught English and was the only professor to privately coach students for MA in English. He himself was an MA
in English and so was my mother. He supported our family successfully in spite of his disability and made me and my brother
and sisters tough. My father died in 1978 at the age of 67 and my mother passed away in 2001 at the ripe age of
84. Both have left an immense mark on me. It was through them I was introduced to literature and English literature in particular.
Looking at their awesome power of writing, I decided to become a writer too.
- I did my graduation in Metallurgical Engineering from MS University
of Baroda (now called Vadodara) in 1972. After working in Bajaj Tempo
Ltd. (now called Force Motors Ltd.) for three and a half years I joined TATA
Motors Ltd., Pimpri Pune and working there till date. Large part of my stint has been in Engineering Research
Centre of TATA Motors.
- My both sisters are happily married and stay in Pune. My brother Divakar became an electronics
engineer and set up a unit manufacturing control instruments. Unfortunately he died in 1999 and his business is now looked
after by his wife Swati and my brother's business partners. Divakar and Swati raised wonderful twins Shounak (boy) and Aditi
(girl) who love me and my wife enormously.
- All of us have traveled a lot. My wife and I have traveled
across most of India. We have been to Southeast Asia and Europe together. My son Siddharth works as a software engineer and
has traveled to UK, US and Europe. I have myself traveled a lot in Europe and US on my company duty. Needless to say,
I have friends all across the world. Son siddharth and his wife Bhagyashri have founded
a company Bhasha Technologies Pvt. Ltd. which makes electronic control
devices, deals in software, translations and odd things like hydroponics.
- I work in Tata Motors Ltd., Pune in its Engineering
Research Centre Division (ERC). I help develop new vehicles. I am head of a department called Learning
Centre which comprises of Knowledge Centre, Teardown and Benchmark Centre
and Innovation Centre sections in ERC. Among other things
I write fiction, sci-fi, poetry--including lyrics and paint and draw a bit.
- I am an innovator, inventor and have been awarded a patent on Process
for Making a Mirror-like Reflective Coating on Articles by the Patents
Office, Govt. of India. A few other patents have been applied for and awaiting award.
- I shall be superannuating from TATA Motors Ltd in October 2009.
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You can see thousands of my images
and some important documents in Skydrive. You can click here to reach there.
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