Suraj Jain
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writing |
| Location | Wilmette, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | Holding a Master's degree in Mathematics with specialization in Mathematical Theory of Statistics and Astronomy; executive experience in corporates; retired as a company director. |
| Interests | Indian classical and light music, English and Hindi Literature, Urdu poetry, Ghazals, Russian/French/ German fiction, philosophy of Science, paintings of Renaissance artistes, contemporary paintings,world history with accent on European/American/Indian events, contemporary political/economic/ financial affairs, Nuclear Disarmament, Global Warming, international law, constitutional law, developments in mathematical and physical sciences, Quantum Mechanics, Theory of Relativity, fundamental particles of Nature, Kurt Godel's Theorems, Riemann Hypothesis, Goldbach's Conjecture. |
| Favorite movies | Bridge on the River Kwai, Brothers Karamazov, Guns of Navarone, Anna Karenina, The Matrix, Schindler's List, Singing in the Rain, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone with the Wind, Rashomon, Anna Karenina(1997), War and Peace, Cyrano de Bergerac(1990), Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Casablanca, A Beautiful Mind, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, No Country for Old Men, Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam, Kaagaz ke Phool, Salaam Bombay, Pather Panchali,Do Bigha Zamin, Sangam, Guide, Shri 420, Ganga Jamuna,Madhumati, Aanand, Tare Zamin Par, Lamhe, Rajnigandha, Ankur, Khoobsurat, No Entry, Black, Baghbaan, Nishabd,Ashad Ka Ek Din, Satya, Bombay, Munna Bhai MBBS,Cheeni Kam, Jodha Akbar, LIfe in a Metro, Fashion, Black, Dev D. |
| Favorite music | Hindustani classical raags Vageshwari, Darbari, Vihag,Jaijaiwanti, Miyan ki Malhaar, Music by Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Karim Khan, Pandit Jasraj, Amjad Ali Khan, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Ghazals by Ghulam Ali, Mehdi Hasan, Iqbal Bano, Farida Khanum, Jagjit Singh, Pankaj Udhaas, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Abida Parveen, Begum Akhtar, songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Sonu Nigam, works of Ludwig von Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Fryderyk Chopin,Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Jean Sebelius, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler |
| Favorite books | Fiction/non-fiction/poetic works by Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Boris Pasternak, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Pushkin, James Joyce, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, Noam Chomsky,Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Victor Hugo, Moliere, Guy de Maupassant, Marcel Proust, Soren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen, Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Schiller, Ludwig Wittgenstein, George Berkeley, David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer, Will Durant,Voltaire, Moliere, Andre Gide, Stefan Zweig,Romain Rolland, Victor Hugo, Khalil Jibran, Alighieri Dante, Agyeya, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Mahadevi Verma, Jaya Shankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Sumitra Nandan Pant, Mirza Ghalib, 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri, Faiz Ahmed'Faiz', Ahmed Faraz, Wasim 'Barelvi', Sadat Hasan Manto, Andrew Marvell, Ernest Dowson, T S Eliot, Ezra Pound, P B Shelley, John Keats, John Donne, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Nazrul Islam, Pablo Neruda, Franz Kafka,Jawaharlal Nehru, and many other writers who have enriched my intellectual life and gave emotional depth to it. |