Hello folks! I’m Hari Shanker R – just another faceless but compulsive guy elbowing his way past the teeming millions that populate the vortex of planet Earth. Or rather, an eternal dreamer, waiting desperately for his dreams to come true!
I did my schooling at Loyola School, Trivandrum and I’m currently pursuing B.Tech in Information Technology at Government Engineering College, Barton Hill, Trivandrum. I’m in the final year of my studies.
Blogging
Blogging is one among my passions. I started off in 2005, in blogger. If you ask me why, well, frankly, I’ve no idea! I just wanted the world to read what I write, and Google said blogs were the best way to do just that.
My first posts were about the angst of a teenager and related stuff. Over the years, I matured. Meanwhile, I made a whole lot of blogs in my name, leaving many to gather dust in the cyberspace. After I started getting ‘countable’ comments, I bought the domain ‘www.harishanker.net’ and redirected it to the blogger blog. I wanted to move over to WordPress, which, unequivocally, is the best content management system for bloggers; but I was broke. I couldn’t even shell out a few thousand bucks for a decent webspace.
That was until WizeHost offered me an ultra-cool hosting package that was too good to resist. I took it with both hands and imported my blogger blog, along with the domain. And Voila, here I am! And, I’m loving it! 
About the blog
I write whatever I feel like in this blog. 
Alright, that sounds a tad too dumb, if not forthcoming, but that’s the truth. There’s absolutely no topic restriction! Everything under the sun, from Short stories to political commentaries, from geek stuff to music and movie reviews, from rants to blunders… you name it, I have it! And I try my best to make it sound interesting so that you’d get a wholesome reading experience.
Why ‘I chose the red pill’:
The Matrix is my favourite movie. I’ve seen it at least 50 times (and counting!). The philosophy, the story line, the stunt sequences… they all have left some sort of an indelible mark in my psyche. There’s a sequence in the movie where the Protagonist Neo (played by Keanu Reeves) is given a choice. He has realized the existence of a parallel world known as The Matrix. Neo should accept reality and fight for the human cause by swallowing a red coloured pill given to him by a crusader/terrorist, “Morpheus”. In order to refuse the invitation, he could eat an alternative blue pill and return to the imaginary world he’s living in.
Undoubtedly, Neo chooses the red pill and fights for liberating mankind from the virtual prison.
The power of this red pill – which stands for choice, freedom and strength led me to name this blog “I chose the red pill”.
