Minko
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Failed economist |
| Location | Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Introduction | A pepper-coloured non-entity.You might also describe this element as an absurd mix of sugar and salt, with a pint of polluted blood. |
| Interests | Literature, music and movies. Used to be a keen follower of the meadow game. Prefers everything associated with Liverpool. A passionate advocate of shyness, a la Robert Lynd. |
| Favorite Movies | Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, John Ford, Frank Kapra, Michael Curtiz, Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Orson Welles, Fred Zinnemann, David Lean, William Wyler, Fritz Lang, Elia Kazan, Charles Chaplin, Stanley Kramer, Otto Preminger, Buster Keaton, Sergio Leone, Howard Hawks, Sam Peckinpah, Anthony Mann, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Francois Truffaut, Jean Renoir, Vittorio De Sica, Bernardo Bertolucci, Federico Fellini, and others. Also, I must mention The Last Picture Show, American Graffiti, Singin' in the Rain, The Third Man, The Lion in Winter, The Shootist, Ivan The Terrible, Les Enfants du Paradis, among others. |
| Favorite Music | Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, The Band, Neil Diamond, Paul Simon, Beach Boys, Gerry and the peacemakers, The Who, Beatles, Lobo, Paul Robson, Kingston Trio, BB King, Glen Campbell, Dire Straits, Abba, Chrissie Hynde, Cat Stevens, Engelbert Humperdinck, Cliff Richard, Don Mclean, Perry Como, Johnny Cash, Bee Gees, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Weavers, Jim Reeves, Scorpion, Eagles, Pink Floyd, Salil Chowdhury, OP Nair, Sachin Dev Burman, Madan Mohan, Joydev, Kanu Roy, Anil Biswas, Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, Manna Dey, Shyamal Mitra, Rahul Dev Burman, Abhijit Bandapadhyay, AR Rahman, Mohd. Rafi, Kishorkumar, Mahendra Kapoor, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Nachiketa Ghosh, Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, Talat Mahmud, Begum Akhter, Bade Ghulam Ali, Amir Khan, Faiz Khan, Farida Khanum, Sudhin Dasgupta, Himangshu Dutta, Atulprasad Sen, Dwijendralal Roy, Kabir Suman, Chandrabindoo, and others. |
| Favorite Books | William Blake, Robert Browning, John Donne, Richard Lovelace, Tobius Smollet, TS Eliot, WB Yeats, John Taylor, Jim Corbett, Dorothy Sayers, John Keats, Henry Wilmot, Emily Bronte, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, JK Rowling, Kenneth Graham, CLR James, William Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore, Porshuram, Satinath Bhaduri, Dante, Goethe, Dylan Thomas, Jibanananda Das, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Kaliprasanna Singha, Sudhidranath Dutta, Samar Sen, Arunkumar Sarkar, Bankimcjandra Chattapadhyay, Biren Chattapadhyay, George Eliot, Budhdhadeva Basu, Sukumar ray, Jonathon Swift, PG Wodehouse, GK Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Chaucer, Matthew Arnold, Aldous Huxley, Henry Fielding, Thomas Hardy, John Osbourne, Franz Kafka, Manik Bandopadhay, John Grisham, Gabriel Dante Rossetti, Robert Frost, Bibhutibhushan Bandapadhay, Daniel Defoe, Arisotphanes, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Seneca, Ovid, Pushkin, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Christopher Marlowe and others...... |