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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Journalist
Location	Pune, Maharashtra, India
Introduction	P Rajkrishnan Menon is a journalist. He has been extremely lucky. He can’t do math to save his life and that is what saved him from dying of boredom doing some ridiculous engineering job. According to him, laughter is everything. He believes that in a trying world, we have to take every opportunity to laugh...at situations, at others and even at one's own self. Raj is currently working with The Indian Express in Pune and had a 1.5-year stint with The Hindu in Chennai after graduating from the Asian College of Journalism in 2006. He has an abiding interest in politics, sports (cricket, boxing, football, tennis...), economics and cinema. Welcome to his blog, newsroom!
Favorite movies	On the Waterfront, 8 1/2, Amores Perros (Mexican), The Godfather I and II, Citizen Kane, When We Were Kings (documentary), The Apu Trilogy, The Untouchables, Road to Perdition, Primal Fear, Psycho, Jaws, The Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, JFK, The Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, The Good,The Bad and The Ugly, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Terminator II, The Whole Nine Yards, Goodwill Hunting, Raging Bull, Deewar (Hindi), Don (Hindi), Nayakan (Tamil), Thalapathi (Tamil), Iruvar (Tamil), Devasuram (Malayalam), Cries and Whispers (Swedish), Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (Malayalam), Cinderella Man, Sandesham (Malayalam), Unforgiven, Forrest Gump, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Rocky series, Mystic River, the James Bond flicks...and many more!
Favorite music	Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Eagles, Cold Play, Elvis, Beatles, Audio Slave, Billy Joel, Iron Maiden, John Denver, U2, Joe Satriani, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, A.R Rahman, etc etc. I'm an avid 'rasika' of Carnatic music, too. Yesudas, SPB, M.S, Balamuralikrishna...ah, greatness!
Favorite books	Any good reading material, good writing. Such as: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Catch 22, Media Control : The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, Manufacturing Consent, The Complete Sherlock Holmes,The Godfather, The Discovery of India, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, The Fight, The Catcher in the Rye, Breakfast of Champions, The Remains of the Day, A Revolutionary's Quest: Selected Writings of Jayaprakash Narayan, Last Orders, Empire Falls, Franny and Zooey, Vernon God Little, Brightly Fades the Don, Beyond a Boundary, The Muhammad Ali Reader, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, The Journalist and the Murderer, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Passage to India, The Executioner's Song, Sons and Lovers, Randamoozham (Malayalam), Khasakinte Ithihasam (Malayalam), The Call of the Wild, Ironweed, The works of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth...endless list, this!