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About me

Gender Female
Introduction late-thirties, living in New Delhi
Interests brooding, playing guitar, talking, binge-eating, bookshop-browsing
Favorite Movies India Song (Marguerite Duras), Culloden (peter Watkins), Easy Rider (Peter Fonda), Wit (Mike Nichols), Night on the Galactic Railroad (Miyazawa), Kwaidaan (Kobayashi), Golmaal (Hrishikesh Mukherjee), The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe), Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee), I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema), Run lola Run (Tom Twyker), Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee), Muriel's Wedding (PJ Hogan), Suture (Scott McGehee, David Siegel), Raising Arizona (the Coen brothers), Thambu (Aravindan), Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (Kundan Shah), Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger), Marathon Man(John Schlesinger), 32 short films about Glenn Gould (Francois Girard), Doing Time With Patsy Kline, Cries And Whispers (Bergman), The Silence (bergman), Winter Light (bergman), Andrei Rublyov (tarkovsky), The Mirror (tarkovsky), Stalker (Tarkovsky), Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (Paradjanov), Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea)
Favorite Music Dylan, Bach, Ustad Amir Khan, Glenn Gould
Favorite Books Charlotte's Web (EB White), 1984 (Orwell), all the Jane Austens, almost all the Georgette Heyers, If This Is A Man (Primo Levi), The Lord of the Rings (tolkien), Maila Aanchal (Phaniswarnath Renu), Maus (Spiegelman), and on and on and on