dhrugeese
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Other!!! (I always wanted to be one) |
| Introduction | Since this generally is taken to mean 'what are you doing in life?': An engineering graduate in Yinpharmesan Tecknaalaji!! But looking for other things to do |
| Interests | Music - piano playing especially. Sustainable development and related issues: philosophy, ecology, economics, society, psychology, the 'Who am I?' kind of stuff |
| Favorite movies | Philadelphia, Braveheart, Life is Beautiful, Gladiator, American Beauty, Goodbye Lenin, American History X, Fiddler on the Roof, Fight Club, Matrubhoomi, Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, Troy, LOTR, Good Will Hunting, Out of the ashes, beyond borders. |
| Favorite music | jazz - Keith jarrett, miles davis, John Coltrane, Brad Mehldau, Kenny Barron, Stan Getz, Thelonius Monk, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, way too many to mention here. western classical - Rachmaninov, Mahler, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Stravinsky, Liszt, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and again too many others. Some rock: Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pink Floyd. A little Dream Theater and a couple of songs by Pain of Salvation. Some carnatic, especially instrumental: L Subramaniam, TN Krishnan, E Gayathri, Shashank, MS Gopalakrishnan to name a few |
| Favorite books | Non-Fiction - Edward Goldsmith, Ivan Illich, Noam Chomsky etc. Fiction: Stuff by John Steinbeck, Somerset Maugham, George Orwell, RK Narayan, Amitav Ghosh; Catcher in the Rye, God of Small Things, Angela's Ashes, A Suitable Boy, Schindler's List, Asterix, Garfield. Recently: Maximum City, The Great Indian Novel. |