Oopali Operajita
My blogs
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Occupation | Adviser, Public Policy and International Relations, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Location | New Delhi, India |
| Interests | Politics, International Affairs, Public Policy, Climate Change, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Art, Architecture, Music, Wines, Travelling and Reading |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia, Moby Dick, Red Shoes, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Rear Window, North by Northwest, all of Satyajit Ray's movies, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Fanny and Alexander, Wild Strawberries, Autumn Sonata, The Silence, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Ritwik Ghatak's films, Adventures of Antoine Doinel, Ran, il Postino |
| Favorite music | Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and Camerata Romana, Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Albeniz, Miles Davies, Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson, John Coltrane, Fats Waller, Thelonius Monk Quartet, Al diMeola, Woody Guthrie, Roy Orbison, John Lee Hooker, Abdullah Ibrahim, Ahmed Jamal, Salif Keita, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Leonard Cohen, Elton John, Paula Abdul, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Joni Mitchell, Shakira, Sting and The Police, Julio Iglesias, Anouar Brahem, Manu Dibango, Youssoun N'Dour, Ismael Lo, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pandit Timir Baran, Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, Pt Omkar Nath Thakur, M S Subbulakshmi, Ustad Amir Khan, Kesarbai Kerkar, Kishori Amonkar, Dwaram Venkatswamy Naidu, T R Mahalingam, T N Seshagopalan |
| Favorite books | Don Quixote, the Rig Veda, the Upanishads, all of Kalidasa, The Bhagavad Gita, Jayadeva's Geetagovindam, all of Dickens' novels, Middlemarch, Silas Marner, The Mill on a Floss, The Woodlanders, Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd, Howards End, A Passage to India, A Room with a View, War and Peace, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Madame Bovary, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Buddenbrooks, Under the Volcano, Darkness at Noon, Women in Love, The Rainbow, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Lord Jim, 1984, The Plague, Moby Dick, The Alexandria Quartet, Love in the Time of Cholera, Invisible Man, The Sheltering Sky, On the Road, Mrs Dalloway, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Horse's Mouth, Prisoner of Grace, Confessions of St. Augustine, Shakespeare's Tragedies, Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, John Donne, John Keats, Shelley, Byron, Aristotle, Plato, Sophocles, Euripides, Dante, Descartes, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Camus, Sartre, Baudelaire, Cavafy, Apollinaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Diderot, Paul Valery, Flaubert, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pablo Neruda, Holderin, W B Yeats, Eugenio Montale, Anna Akhmatova, Maria Tsevateyeva, Federico Garcia Lorca, Roland Barthes, Raja Rao, Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Paul Coelho |