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Born in 1942, Barnabas Tiburtius studied Latin, Mathematics and Science. He also took a course in French and Advance English. He then graduated from MadrasUniversityin Electrical Engineering specializing in Electronics and Control systems.
After 36 years of working in the field of Control Technology, from being a Design Engineer to heading a multinational company in Asia-Pacific, in 2002, he started a second career in writing and Social Entrepreneurship. He is currently the Managing Trustee of AMITA FOUNDATION, a public charitable Trust for education of socially challenged children and Chairman of ANISHA, a Microfinance organization dedicated to poverty alleviation of poor, rural and urban, women.
Throughout his life, he is involved in multi-discipline learning and his field of enquiry covers Cosmology, Sustainable Technology, Strategic Leadership, Philosophy and Spirituality. He is the mentor of an initiative called ‘SPARK’ for empowerment of spiritual thinking. He is a good communicator and systemic thinker. He lives with his wife Magi in Chennai, India.
He can be contacted at: btibs@amitafoundation.org or btiburtius@gmail.com and visit his website is: www.livingspark.net
All monies received through the sale of any of his publications go to the Corpus fund of AMITA FOUNDATION, which provides scholarships for socially challenged children.
- Location:
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India
- Primary occupation:
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Social Empowerment
- Dream occupation:
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Lead social change
- Hometown:
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Tiruchirappalli
- Schools attended:
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Sacred Heart MatriculationSchool, PSG Engineering College
- I like:
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Reading, Writing
- Favorite writers:
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Woodhouse, Edgar Alan Poe, Walt whitman, Wordsworth, Stephen Hawkins, Roger penrose. Michio Kaku, Fritzof Capra, and a lot more
- Favorite books:
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Books on Cosmology, Poetry, Upanishads
- Favorite music:
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Western & Indian Classical
- Favorite movies:
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Humor & Science fiction
- Gender:
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Male
- Religion:
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Vedantic Christian