A friend of mine asked the other day the following question -- 10 years ago did you think you will land up where you have and did you think you will become the person you have? It intrigued me. Did I? Ten years and four months ago I left my parent's home and went to Chennai to pursue graduate studies. I still get goosebumps thinking about the first time I stayed in my hostel room alone. It was a very very new, exciting and a very liberating experience for me. I was nervous, I was scared and I was excited all at the same time. I remember the first time I travelled by an overnight train, alone! I was traveling to Bangalore chasing my secrete adventure without telling my parents. I remember the first time I tried to understand something very cool in complexity theory. It was technically very hard; harder than anything I had ever tried in the past and amazingly beautiful. I remember the time when I went up to Meena (my advisor)'s office to ask her whether she will take me as her...