Anil the Pianoman
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| Location | Madras, Madras |
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| Introduction | Musician in love with music. Writer in love with writing. Teacher in love with teaching. Consultant in love with consulting. Enthusiasm disproportionately higher than ability...usual story |
| Favorite Movies | Amadeus, Schindler's List, Colours of Paradise, Baran, Cinema Paradiso, Mudhal Mariyadhai, Charulata, Mouna Ragam, Madame Souzatska, Agony and the Ecstasy, El Diarrio Motocieclita, Amores Perros, Dr Zhivago, The Sound of Music |
| Favorite Music | My hall of fame : Mandolin U Srinivas, Sting, The Beatles, Vladimir Horowitz, Sikkil Gurucharan, T K Rangachari, Cassandra Wilson, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Yo Yo Ma. There are just way too many people who fall into my favourites list outside of this to name! I am a great fan of Charan's (aka Sikkil Gurucharan's) Carnatic singing when I am one among the enthralled thousands sitting in the stalls, and not on his right on stage. |
| Favorite Books | Everything by Nevil Shute. Anything by PG Wodehouse. Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children and The Firebird's Nest. Vikram Seth for An Equal Music and From Heaven Lake. Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club. Most of Graham Greene....and it goes on. |