celestri.org

My name is Manish Jain and was born in Pune, India then moved to the US when I was 4 months old. Currently, I’m one of the new NRI’s - Newly Relocated to India. Prior to the relocation I was living in Redondo Beach, California and loved it out West, a tons of things to see and do.

On the work front, I spent over 10 years in the technology sector as a consultant, and started shaadi.com back in the pre dot-com era (circa 1996). Since October 2005, I’ve been in Mumbai to focus on emerging markets. At the moment spending most of my time on the financial sector, click for more info [pdf, 8 pages, 1 mb].

My interests include jogging, cars, technology and a bit of everything else.

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About this site
April 2, 2008
Upgraded to WordPress 2.5.  Looking to implement a new theme in the next couple months.

December 26, 2006
Version 4.0 was launched Using WordPress v2.1.x. Click for more technical details.

May 15, 2005
Version 3.0 was launched. Finally decided to ditch the static web pages and go for a more dynamic platform, then i noticed a free blogging software that iPowerWeb offered called b2. Around the time I was about to implement b2, I stumbled upon WordPress and started using it instead. Archived image

June 15, 2004
Version 2.0 was launched. After moving the sites between several web hosters I decided to use iPowerWeb, at this point the website will still manually created by using FrontPage/Dreamweaver. Archived image

1999
Version 1.0 was launched. I originally hosted the website at shaadi.com from 1996-1999 then switched it to homepage.com, a casualty of the tech bubble. I used Microsoft’s FrontPage to create the site. Archived image

About the name? celestri.org was chosen because I wanted something that was unique and evoked the thought of the sky, which is something I don’t get to see very often in smoggy Los Angeles Bombay.