Abhijit Basu
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Delhi, India |
| Introduction | My interests are legion. In the realm of liberal arts in particular, my ideal is the Renaissance Man. I myself, in my own small ways, have been pursuing studies of the Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, and a variety of other subjects. Among the performing arts, my special hobbies are polyglot (including Sanskrit, English, Bengali and Hindi) recitations, vocal music and dramatics. By personal inclination, I believe in the age-old Indian value of universal kinship and pluralism. In religion, I prefer the line of spiritual philosophy rather than of rituals and dogma, my lodestar in life being the 'Bhagavad Gita'. |
| Interests | Literature,Science,History,Philosophy,Indian spiritualism,Recitation, Dramatics, Music. |
| Favorite movies | Admirer of old Hollywood movies, Hitchcock, Film Noir, Trial Drama and the works of Ray, Guru Dutt et al among Indian movies. Music: Tagore Songs, Songs of such lyricists/ composers/ singers as Sahir, Gulzar, SD Burman and Hemant Kumar. Belafonte, The Beatles and Bob Dylan. |
| Favorite music | Tagore Songs, Songs of such lyricists/ composers/ singers as Sahir, Gulzar, SD Burman and Hemant Kumar. Belafonte, The Beatles and Bob Dylan. |
| Favorite books | Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Chandi and The Holy Bible among religious/ spiritual texts. Ramayan , Mahabharat , Ilyad and Odyssey among the world's epics; Works of Kalidas and Jaydev in Sanskrit literature, writing of Tagore, Bankimchandra, Jibanananda etc. in Bengali; Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge, Emerson and TS Eliot among English/American poets; Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Dickens, Hardy among western novelists; PG Wodehouse among humorists; John Le Carre to think and be thrilled; Herodotus, Thucydides, Suetonius, Tacitus among classical and Trevelyan, AJP Taylor and Trevor Roper among modern historians. A mong historical periods/ movements, I like the Vedic age, the Buddha and Ashoka the Great, Samudragupta, the Grand Mughals and Indian Freedom Movement in Indian History; Tudor/Elizabethan and Victorian era in British History; French Revolution; American Independence and American Civil War history; Historical Fiction; John Le Carre's Books. |