Kranti
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Adjunct Faculty & Doctoral Student |
| Location | Denver, COLORADO, United States |
| Introduction | "Life is like taking a good photograph. You've gotta give it your best shot" ~ Kranti. Each one of us are photographers. We see life from a lens - a lens made of experience. My experiences - meandering; and that's what makes life worth it - from a school student in Agartala, Tripura to a college-goer in Christ College, Bangalore. From being a student to a Teacher and back to a student. From India to Europe and back. From back-pains to spontaneous trips in South India. From vegetarianism to sea-food obsession. From Charles Dickens to Clotaire Rapaille. From collecting stamps to writing poetry. From playing for the State U-16 Cricket team to doing an MBA. From bunking classes at school and college to working on a PhD in Colorado. From being a student to teaching. From being a teetotaller to a wine maniac. From Marwari culture to a world-view. From something old to something new... |
| Interests | Photography, Creative Writing, Traveling, Reading, Wining and Dining, Singing and Playing Cricket, Hiking, Scuba Diving |
| Favorite Movies | Life is Beautiful, Forrest Gump, A Beautiful Mind, The Shawshank Redemption, The Ghost and the Darkness, Notting Hill, Dumb and the Dumber, Titanic, Behind Enemy Lines, Ghost, The Lion King, Shrek, The Gods must be Crazy, Fiddler on the Roof, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Finding Nemo, Anand, Sholay, Pather Panchali, Dil Chahta Hai, Dosti, Goopi Gyne Bagha Byne |
| Favorite Music | Country, Jazz & Blues, Classical Indian, Folk, Soft Rock, Psychedelic Rock (sans the grass!), Alternative, The Eagles, The Doors, Dire Straits, U2, Beausoleil, Pink Floyd, UB 40, Buckwheat Zydeco, Sarah Brightman, Jim Reeves, John Denver, Alison Krauss, Liquid Tension Experiment, Lobo, Rob Thomas, Simon & Garfunkel, Indian Ocean, Yanni, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey, Rafi, Mukesh, Jagjit Singh, Prem Joshua, Guns N' Roses |
| Favorite Books | 'Tuesdays with Morrie' ~ Mitch Albom, 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' ~ Richard Bach, 'The Culture Code' ~ Clotaire Rapaille, 'The Kite Runner' ~ Khaled Hosseini, 'Why we Buy' - Paco Underhill, 'The Indians - Portrait of a People' - Sudhir & Katharina Kakar, 'The Lamp is Lit' ~ Ruskin Bond, 'The Alchemist' ~ Paulo Coelho, 'Mein Kampf' ~ Adolf Hitler, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' ~ Harper Lee, 'Best of Satyajit Ray', 'The Romantics' ~ Pankaj Mishra, 'Three Men in a Boat' ~ Jerome Klapka Jerome, 'Panchatantra' ~ Bidpai, 'Ramayana' ~ Rishi Valmiki, anything written by Ruskin Bond, Mitch Albom, Scott Adams, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, W.H. Auden and Richard Bach |