Although I had been named as Sayantan on the birth certificate, I am better known as Shayon to both friends and family. Was born on the 7th of July, 1985 in a little place called Belghoria, in Kolkata.
Yes, that is where my so-called journey, they named it life, started. By nature, I am a vagabond. Thanks to my father’s transferable job in a nationalized bank, I had been privileged to stay in 8 cities till date, studied in 10 schools, mastered 4 languages and inhabited in 10 houses. Yes, it does sound weird, but whatta fun. Trust me! 
While all this roaming around gave me a lot of exposure, helped me come across loads of people and scores of mentalities, one thing I always kept craving for is the lack of chuddi buddies. Yes, thanks to the hippie nature of my life, never really managed to have that group of friends with whom you normally grow up, go to school together, then college, even fall in love together, at times with the same girl! Never had friends like those. Nah, I won’t say I haven’t got great friends. Rather I got quite a few gems of them, in my short span of life. And yet…
First time I started blogging was over 6 years ago, inspired by a person, and an incident. I, somehow, feel that my blogging career would never have taken off had I not come across Elliez’ blog on Rediff. Unfortunately, I do not remember the URL. She had abandoned it long back and moved to Blogger, named Cogito Ergo Sum. It is a shame that she does not blog any more. Anyway, as for the incident that inspired me to write my very first blog post, check out Train Journey that changed my Life.
Why is this blog called ‘Shayon’s Labyrinth’, have you ever wondered? Well, Shayon, ‘coz that’s my name. Yes, that’s a bummer. And the dictionary meaning of Labyrinth is a confusingly intricate state of things or events. And that is exactly how my mind works. First, it always refuses to see anything as black or white. For me, everything is a shade of grey. Second, I constantly strive to build an idealistic world around me. My girlfriend says that I need to be more practical and take things with a pinch of salt. My argument, I always take things with 2 pinches of salt. But should we continue to accept things as practical sets of life and move on, without trying to change things for the better, ourselves? Anyway, I have started blabbering all over again. Need to constantly remind myself that it is not a blog post! :-p
On the professional side, I am an Electrical Engineer from NIT Jamshedpur (yes, the website looks crap, I know). Started off my career as the Editor of an Indian web advertising blog called WATBlog, and then moved on to being a technology journalist in the only open source magazine in South Asia, LINUX For You. Finally, on the December of 2009, I moved to Bengaluru, to work for a firm called Airlink.in, as an online media marketeer. Yes, this is where I am currently stationed.
I have a feeling that this ‘About’ section is gradually turning autobiographical and it’s time I stopped myself typing. Of course, if you are interested to know more about me, there’s always this blog to take you forward
Adios.
This blog is basically a chronicle of my life, and my emotions, since the time I first left home, in search of the oblivion, in quest of my ultimate goal. This blog has a lot of my memories that still manages to churn out a plethora of emotions within me, every time I wade through the cobwebs of my memory. While I was just a little teenager when I started with it, today I am in the transition phase of being a man of my own stature. And the journey still continues.
