About Author

Philosophy and science are fun to write about but I have always found it difficult to write about myself. It is partly due to the difficulty in drawing a sharp line between too little and too much. On a deeper level though the reason is more subtle. When one writes about oneself the subject object duality is lost. It is hard to be objective about oneself except in giving a factual description of the life events. And that is what I am going to limit myself to.

In this life I am Dharmbir Rai Sharma born in India seventyseven years ago. I had my education in India culminating in a Masters degree in physics. After that I worked for Government of India for ten years. Then I came to the USA and obtained PhD in electrical engineering from Cornell University. I have taught at a few universities here and one in Brazil where I spent sometime. Towards the end of my career I also worked at the Research and Development Engineering Center of the US Army, at the same time teaching at one of the local universities as an adjunct professor.

On my retirement eleven years ago I decided to get into creative writing. Although I had a fairly large number of research papers published during the working years, this was different. My first work was a novel - "What Dies Is Not Me", the second was a non-fiction about my personal experience of surviving prostate cancer (that remained unpublished).

I have had a life-long interest in Vedanta philosophy (which remained quite dormant during my science-engineering career). I decided to explore the parallels between philosophy and modern science and that has been my interest for the past ten years. It has now manifested itself in the form of this website. We live in Austin, Texas with children settled in Austin, Houston, Columbus OH, and St. Louis MO.

Page updated June 15, 2006