About

Hello World! I’m Prasanna Ramaswamy, a 3rd year B. Tech. Engineering Physics student, studying at IIT Madras. I’ve realized that I’m interested in Music, playing around with my computer, Web Designing, Astronomy, to name a few.

Music

I have been learning Carnatic Music for a very long time and aspire to become a full-fledged musician someday. Currently, I am learning vocal and Chitraveena from Chitravina Ganesh and Chitravina Narasimhan. I fiddle around with some more musical instruments as well, but can’t play any of them really well.

Web Designing

I also like to design websites (newly found interest). Following are some of the websites that I manage / designed (alone/part-of-a-team).

• Shaastra 2007
• Music Club, IIT Madras
• The Sundaram Finance Mylapore Festival 2008
• http://10.94.2.4/ – (Accessible only inside IIT Madras)

and of course my personal website (will be ready soon)

Computing

I use Debian GNU/Linux with the GNOME Desktop Environment. As of now, I’m just a linux user and haven’t contributed much to the FOSS Community. Most of the time that I am in front of my computer is spent on doing assignments, googling for bug fixes, checking mail, designing and blogging. I’m known as pressman on irc.freenode.net.

Astronomy

I’m a member of the Astronomy Club, IIT Madras. The club owns a wonderful Celestron 8″ GTA Telescope. Much of my inspiration in astronomy is drawn from my friend – Akarsh Simha. The club holds regular observation sessions. We also try photographing objects once in a while. The picture on the right is Saturn, taken by us.

Contact

You can contact me at mr.r.prasanna [*AT] gmail [DOT*] com