Hey Tango World! So loud out there, full of music and the silence of dancers (except a few beginners too nervous not to shush :-). It’s exciting to actually merge my work experience (programming) with one of my most cherished passions (tango)! I started programming senior year college, which was thirteen years ago! Mostly server-side web programming, and mostly on UNIX. Now I am more versatile, doing also quick scripts as well as full-blown software engineering. That’s the boring part. The more interesting part is that while being a nerdy programmer in front of a computer at some corner in some God-forsaken lab at Yale, a labmate kept suggesting that I join tango at her now world-famous Yale Tango Club. Eventually I gave it a try after being nudged by another friend. And, woo, that changed my life a lot. It’s no coincidence that so many scientists are in tango; it reminds us the human side of life.
I am studying Hindi now, and the other day I learned about India’s most famous poet, Kabir, and he said that you can spend all your life studying and thinking, but you’ll die not being anywhere closer to the truth; but if you know the 2.5 syllables of love (in Hindi it’s 2.5 syllables), you know life. So true for tango, especially for those who’d tried dissecting the steps but failed to open their hearts.
So I will be one of the people driving the software forward, heart and mind. It’s true that nowadays it only takes two to tango, but I am glad there’s more than two of us in this wonderful team!
