I was asked to submit a brief bio for the Community-based writing initiative website.  

    After chitchatting with the Buddha about Tibet, Shashi Thandra incarnated in South India and was forced to spend eight years with the postcolonial savages learning the Queen’s English. He jumped at the chance to return to Columbus’ India, America, and has spent much of his waking life there. Shashi decided not to walk at commencement after completing his B.A at Wayne State University, fearing that the Phi Beta Kappa key would knot itself in the Magna Cum Laude tassels causing him to trip before receiving his English degree (with honors). He is a humble man.
    When Gwen Gorzelsky thoroughly whopped up on Shashi during a sparring session at the martial arts school they both attended, he realized that learning to live a peaceful, mindful life is only for sissies who are not interested in the amorphous, emerging field known as Globalization Studies. Shashi’s involvement in community-based writing is based less on a desire to practice and theorize the aphorism, “Think globally, act locally,” than to take revenge on Dr. Gorzelsky through the Honor students he will be teaching and whose program he hopes to shape at the departmental level.
    Shashi believed that he unraveled the question of Being while eating chocolate and shaping his Bonsai, immediately forsook his primary scholastic interest in alterity, but lost his realization when Buddha reminded him not be a ham in public spaces.  

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