Hi, I am Shivaji ('Basu' is the Lastname!), an Engineer by Profession. Call me "SHIV". Having graduated in Marine Engineering, I worked with various Shipping Companies from 1973 up to 1991. Eventually, I quit sea and moved 'ashore' in October 1991. Ashore, I've worked for ISGEC John Thompson (Steam Turbine maintenance division), with RPG-Rolls Royce Power Engineering Limited - initially as a Project Manager, then as the head of 'Power Engineering' division. Essentially, I was looking after Steam Turbine related Thermal Power Station After Market Business & Projects driven by Rolls-Royce's Power Division and then with Calcutta Electric Supply Co. Limited as the head of Quality Assurance

Then there is my 'better half' - a marvelous wife, a super mother & a great cook too! Deepanita is her full name, but everyone calls her "DEEPA". When I met her, she had just completed graduation (in 'English') and was into her Master's. Things happened quite fast! We tied the 'knot' on 4th of December 1979. Never worked - except for a short while in a play school. Currently, of course, stays busy with our small Web Designing Firm's admin & finances.

Priyam is our lovely daughter. Just stepped into her Teens! We call her "JIJA". Born in 1986. Older of the Two! In the 10th Standard now. Hobbies are - Chatting, Chatting and ...., as with teenagers from all over the world, these days!

Our son, Protik, joined us last. That was in 1990. Quiet sort of a guy. Loves his 'Pencils' !! He is, more populary, known as "JISHNU". Now in the 5th Standard. Believe it or not, THIS IS how we were way back in the early eighties. I think, this was in 1981 to be exact - in a little town called Wangarei, in NewZealand. Feeling at HOME!! In Search of Rhinos! December 1997 - at Kaziranga Reserved Forest in Assam, North-Eastern India.