Industry	Student
Occupation	Living
Location	Ithaca, NY, USA, India
Introduction	Devilish grin, at a lopsided angle…disheveled hair partly hiding impish eyes…tender hearted Biochem genius…3 component phase diagram stud with a penchant for photography and traveling…did someone say a passionate quizzer?…Satriani strums…Fusion fundaz…neo-classical cartoonist…dismal at discerning people in the first go (leech, ahem!)…even worse at Thermodynamics ;)…trenchant humor, with a pinch of emotion thrown in…fellow Samarkand lover…Dark temptation loyalist…the sangfroid late-Latif…consistently inconsistent…bundle of gupis… Dreamer. Go-getter. Achiever. That’s Carbide ............. I wish I could change it to About Us..coz thats what it is, but I'll keep it short... Do u know who penned all of the above?? That's Platinum!!
Interests	Chemistry, Fusion music, Mark Tully, Wodehousean humor, Photography, Poetry, Arbit cogitations, Reading, Afghani cuisine, Calvin and Hobbes, Chess, Crosswords, Sudoku, Snake, chatting ad lib...and ya, taking a nap whenever possible!
Favorite movies	Saving Private Ryan, Dead man walking, Liar Liar, Ben Hur, Shawshank Redemption, Gladiator, Prestige, The pianist, No man's land, Life is Beautiful, Abhimaan, Sarkar, Parineeta, Black, TZP, DCH, Agantuk, Kanchanjunga, Aranye Din ratri, Gupi Bagha trilogy, Pather Panchali trilogy...
Favorite music	Indian ocean, Mrigya, Ravi Shankar, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Zakir Hussain, Lobo, Bryan Adams, John Denver, Hemanta Mukherjee, Anjan Dutta, Nachiketa, Joe Satriani, G&R,Simon and Garfunkel, Cliff Richards, Richard Marx, Carpenters..
Favorite books	To Kill a Mocking Bird, Roots, Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy, Surely you're joking Mr.Feynman, Farewell to arms, All quiet on the western front, The snows of Kilimanjaro, Mousetrap, The horse whisperer, Letters to Milena(Kafka), Mother, Animal Farm, Final diagnosis, Eighth day of creation, Blink, anything by Wodehouse, Arabyo rojoni, Feluda, Prachetosh, Pather Panchali, Shesher Kobita...

The first time you had your shoes taken off - how surprised were you to see that you still had toes?

how tastier octopuses would be!!