Sid Misra
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Banking |
| Occupation | Investment |
| Location | Bombay, India |
| Introduction | Born and brought up in middle class Delhi, educated in Delhi and US and traveled a bit in the world. I came of age in the Delhi (and India) of 1980s. Memories of endless wait for DTC buses to visit the Trade Fair, Operation Bluestar and Indira Gandhi's assassination and the "riots", Rajiv Gandhi's "hum dekhenge" ( we shall see) speeches and finally the Mandal Agitation keep visiting me. Frankly, I am still trying to understand my country, culture and countrymen and even myself. But life is quite interesting! I am currently based in Bombay and work in a bank in the area of fixed income portfolio management but this blog is about me as a person and not the professional. I am married to Dipti and we have two children, a daughter, Priya and son, Saumitra. |
| Interests | Reading, Music, Traveling and Reading while doing everything else |
| Favorite movies | Forrest Gump, Guns of Navarone, All Charlie Chaplin, Oscar, Mahal (Ashok Kumar), Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Schindler's List, Gandhi and many more |
| Favorite books | Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Gulliver's Travels by J Swift, Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham, Passage to India by EM Forster, Tess by Thomas Hardy, Alexander Dumas, Gandhi, Gerald Durrell, Sue Townsend, Amitava Ghosh, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, John Steinbeck, Animal Farm by Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Cervantes, George Elliot, David Copperfield, History, Native Americans, Central African and Tibetan Explorations, Autobiographies of writers, Indian Culture and Society. |