CURRICULUM VITAE

• Date of birth : 9th August 1975
• Nationality : Indian
• e-mail : mockturtlesoup@hotmail.com

• 1996 - 1997 : LLB (first year), GLC, Churchgate, Bombay 400020
• 1993 - 1996 : BA   (History), St. Xavier's, Mahapalika Marg, Bombay 400001
• 1991 - 1993 : HSC (Arts), St. Xavier's, Mahapalika Marg, Bombay 400001
• 1981 - 1991 : SSC  (Class I through X), Convent of Jesus and Mary - Fort, 15 Wodehouse Road, Bombay 400001

• Operating Systems : DOS; Windows95; Windows98.
• Office Software : MS Office2000 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook).
• Internet : HTML; HotDog Pro 5; Macromedia Dreamweaver 2; MS FrontPage 2000; various browsers and email clients.
• Multimedia : Adobe Photoshop 5; Aldus PageMaker; MS Publisher; Kai's Power Tools 5; KPT Convolver; Macromedia Flash 4; sound recording software; image animators.

• Currently building a website for W.S.D., a Bombay based NGO. My work includes HTML coding, content, images, application of CGI scripts and upgrades.
• Worked full time for the British Council from January to April 1999 for the Cultural Activities Unit.
• Worked full time for the British Council in October & November 1998 for the Cultural Activities Unit, organising events by Peepolykus, British theatre company, and Julian Warburton, percussionist.
• Worked full time for the British Council from February to May 1998 for The Enduring Image art and artefacts exhibition (presented by the Government of India, the British Government and the British Museum) in Bombay.


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• 1994 - Lions Clubs of France Bourse (Les Centres Culturels des Lions Clubs de France)
  Annual award given to international students with one of the basic selection criteria being fluency in French. Awardees spend five weeks in France as guests of the Lions, working on a specific theme and learning about the culture of their chosen region. They also spend a week with a host family of Lions in the same region.
• 1996 - My entry for the Government Law College's annual Mulla Legal Essay Writing Competition, One Nation, One Law : A Case for a Non-Sexist Uniform Civil Code was published by the Competition Board and the Editors as the lead article in the annual magazine.

• English
• French
• Hindi

• Building websites, writing in HTML code using standard editors:
  Soup's On!   (homepage)
  The Unofficial Bombay Page
  Webspinner
  The Home-coming
• Literature and writing (wrote middles for the Times of India, Target, college magazine; edited the school magazine during last two years in school; was on editorial board of law school magazine)
• History, Archaeology and Indology (attended summer school on Archaeology in April '95)
• Languages
  Studied French at L'Alliance Française de Bombay :
  Niveau I - Jan to May '92
  Niveau II - Aug to Dec '92
  Niveau III - Aug to Dec '93
• Classical music (both Indian and Western; learnt Hindustani classical vocal)
• Fine Arts
• Traveling

• 1994 - MARG (Marketing And Research Group), Bombay
  Worked for MARG during May and June '94 on one major and two minor projects