Author
Atul Chitnis is a technology consultant, residing in India’s “Silicon Valley” - Bangalore.
A qualified Bachelor of Engineering holder in Mechanical Engineering, he has always been fascinated with the world of technology - especially computers.
Atul began writing technical and techno-social articles in the early 1990s, but his dabbling with writing goes back to his childhood, when he and his brother used to “publish” newspapers and magazines, writing all the material themselves.
His first piece of technical writing was a “User manual for our Home” that he wrote in sheer frustration after his family moved into a new home, where nothing seemed to work, and which contained the immortal instruction “To get water out of the shower, flush the toilet first…”.
In 1992, he was encouraged by Prasanto Kumar Roy, then editor of Indian computing magazine PC Quest, to write a series of articles for the magazine. These articles appeared to have been quite popular, resulting in a permanent column in PC Quest between 1993 and 1996, named “COMversations”. He was also consulting editor to PC Quest until 2002.
You can find out more about Atul, visit his site - http://atulchitnis.com.