Abhishek*
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Engineering |
| Occupation | Information Technology |
| Location | Hyderabad, India |
| Introduction | I am an experiment on the part of nature, a gamble within the unknown, perhaps for a new purpose, perhaps for nothing, and my only task is to allow this game on the part of the primeval depths to take its course, to feel its will within me and make it wholly mine. That or nothing. - Hermann Hesse |
| Interests | old Hindi film songs, long walk and long ride in lonely nights, talking with friends on a cup of tea in small shady stalls, aroma of good hot food, rainy nights, solitary places, warm hugs, mute love, the hidden side of hills, moon coming out of August clouds, sound of waves with relaxed sips of lemonade, living close to the nature and to feel its poetry within me, and finally, as Camus says - "Living without appeal" |
| Favorite movies | Dil se, Prahaar, Sarfarosh, Andaz Apna Apna, Shool, Masoom, Deewaar, Mother India, Most of Bimal Roy (Do Beegha Zameen, Kabuliwala, Bandini), Charulata, Anything by Ritwik Ghatak To kill a mockingbird, Paths of Glory, Matrix, Cast Away, Dead Poets Society, Dogville, Film Noir Movies, Anything by Hitchcock Huozhe, In the Mood for Love, Christmas in August, Early works of Kurosawa(Ikiru, No Regrets in My Life), City of God, The Sea Inside, Colors Trlilogy - Blue, The 400 Blows, The Bicycle Thief, Nights of Cabiria, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Through a glass darkly, Stella, Iranian Cinema - anything by Majidi I couldn't stand "Life is Beautiful" for more than 30 mins. And I didn't like Gurudutt's "Pyaasa" either. |
| Favorite music | in words of Camus, "Music conducive to Dream..." That says it with surreal precision. Semi-Classical with anachronistic lyrics - Urdu shayari Anything by Sahir and Kaifi Azmi. Ghalib. Gulzar (esp with RDB) :- Tere Bina (Aandhi) I worship Madan Mohan - Lata Mangeshkar duo. Hemant Kumar. Salil da. Sachin Dev Burman. Khayyam - Aap yoon faaslon se (Razia Sultan) A.R.Rehman's Dil se* Madhushala* by Manna De/Jaidev - abhi na jao (Hum Dono) Living in the bygone era of soulful melody, I absolutely LOVE the sound of flute, santoor, sitar and violin. And I unconditionally HATE hard metal, remixes and indipop, since I am averse to any form of noise. Ghazals by Begum Akhtar, Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh, and Mehdi Hassan. Sometimes light Romantic songs by Javed Akhtar; & peppy tunes of O.P.Nayyar :- Aankhon hi aankhon mein ishara ho gaya (CID) Bhojpuri Folk Songs by Sharda Sinha and some Bollywood masala :D |
| Favorite books | Fiction: The works of Tolstoy*, Dostoevsky*, Pasternak, Camus*, Orwell, Maugham, Wilde, Dickens, Hesse, Kafka, Marquez, Coetzee, Beckett (Waiting for Godot*), Kundera, Huxley, Doyle, Chinua Achebe, Hemingway (Old Man and Sea*), Steinbeck, Salinger, Harper Lee, Miller, Ibsen, Robert Pirsig (ZMM*) Premchand*, Dinkar*, Bachchan (Madhushala), Dharmaveer Bharti (Gunahon Ka Devta*), Srilal Shukla (Rag Darbari*), Harishankar Parsai, Yashpal, Mohan Rakesh, Kamaleshwar, Surendra Verma, Saratchandra, Tagore, Ghalib*, R K Narayan No Joyce and Nabokov for me. And no Bernards and their society talks please. Non-Fiction: Gandhi (My experiments with truth), Nehru (Discovery of India), Dinkar (Sanskriti ke char adhyaya*), Yashpal (Singhavalokan), Max Muller (India:What can it teach us?), Eric Berne (Games people play), Linda Goodman (Sun Signs*) |