Thomas Chacko
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consulting |
| Occupation | Company Secretary |
| Location | Cochin, Kerala, India |
| Introduction | A company secretary by qualification but a writer by inclination with two published books: Without a City Wall and Forest Gold - The Story of South Indian Tea to my credit. Please check www.indiaimprint.com. I was also runner-up in eAuthor 5.0 an All India short story writing competition conducted by the Oxford Bookstore with Harper Collins and Readers' Digest as co-sponsors. I have also ghost written 5 novels for others. I love traveling and have to date visited 27 countries in Europe, North America and Asia as a tourist. I used to race motorcycles competitively and successfully but now am an armchair rider and driver content to watch races and write newspaper articles about motor sports. I am married. My wife is a teacher, my son a game designer who has just released HELION, a game for the iPhone and my daughter an avowed environmentalist, is about to complete a masters degree in environment from the University of East Anglia, UK |
| Interests | Reading, Writing, Art, Music, Singing, History, International cuisine, Fine Wine, F1, MotoGP, WRC, Tennis, Travel |
| Favorite Movies | Amadeus, Ronin, Bullit, Remains of the Day, Lawrence of Arabia, Rear Window, Wait until dark, A Man for all Seasons, The Godfather, Grand Prix, Le Mans, The Italian Job, Rainman, Star Wars, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Psycho, The Ipcress File, North by North West, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, ET, Gladiator, Eyewitness, Fiddler on the Roof, Chariots of Fire, Moulin Rouge |
| Favorite Music | Heavy Horses, Sometimes when we touch, Hello, Me and Bobby McGee, Reason to Believe, Imagine, In search of the lost chord, A whiter shade of pale, Take Five, Bohemian Rhapsody, Four Seasons |
| Favorite Books | A bend in the river, Forest Gold, Huckleberry Finn, The picture of Dorian Gray, The spy who came in from the cold, Passage to India, 1984, Forrest Gump, Madame Bovary, Pillars of the Earth, Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22, Lucky Jim, Lord of the Flies, The Pearl, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Human Bondage, Without a City Wall |
Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?
Neither - I don't like whittling - it reduces things. Even if I did, I don't have the time. I don't need wood to whistle