My blogs

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Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Musician and Teacher
Location	Bombay, India
Introduction	I am a professional performer, teacher and a keen student of Indian classical music on the sarod. Most of my time is spent practicing, teaching and learning. In addition to my musical pursuits, I am a voracious reader and enjoy a wide range of literature, but am generally averse to most pretentious (read Booker and Pulitzer decorated) late 20th and early 21st century writing, especially the sort emanating from the subcontinent.
Interests	Hindustani (Indian Classical) Music, History, Material Philosophy, Tennis, Swimming
Favorite movies	Ivan the Terrible \| The Fiddler on the Roof \| Merchant of Venice \| The Gods Must Be Crazy
Favorite music	Hindustani classical vocalists: Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Kesarbai Kerkar, Kishori Amonkar, Faiyaz Khan, Vilayat Hussain Khan, Dinkar Kaikini, Yashwantbua Joshi, Ulhas Kashalkar, Ashwini Bhide \| Instrumentalists: Vilayat Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Mushtaq Ali Khan, Radhika Mohan Maitra, Kalyan Mukherjea, Vinayak Chittar, Prattyush Banerjee, Tejendra Majumdar \| Tabla: Ahmad Jan Thirakwa, Amir Hussain Khan, Habibuddin Khan, Zakir Hussain, Anindo Chatterjee, Nayan Ghosh, Subhankar Banerjee, Yogesh Samsi, Aditya Kalyanpur
Favorite books	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (Nirad C. Chaudhuri), \| The Argumentative Indian (Amartya Sen), \| The Gita As It Was (Phulgenda Sinha), \| Nikolai Gogol's short stories and Dead Souls, \| most of Solzhenytsin \| Short stories by Saki

You're wearing a sweater that stretches down to your feet. What color belt do you put on?

One wouldn't find me in such outrageous attire.