Sandeep Gupta
My blogs
| Introduction | I am 45 years old, and enjoy writing about nature, the environment, music and economics. I used to be an athlete, but now content myself with playing tennis and walking. I am an ancient history buff. I love rock and classical music (old Ludwig Van, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius and Amadeus), as well as jazz. |
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| Interests | Trekking, mountains, writing, music, ancient Near Eastern history, documentary making, valiant attempts to play the guitar, macro-economics |
| Favorite movies | Movies by Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood, Monty Python, some Oliver Stone movies, |
| Favorite music | Favorite bands - the Who, Jimi Hendrix and the Experience, Fairport Convention, Ocean Colour Scene, The Faces, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Blur. Favorite classical music - Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Moonlight Sonata, The Rustic Cavalier, Most of Mozart, Chopin and Listz |
| Favorite books | Creation and Julian by Gore Vidal, Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiesen, travel books (V. S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux), historical fiction by Robert Graves, anything by Henning Mankell, P.G. Wodehouse |