Priya Tarakad
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Language Expert |
| Location | Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Introduction | That cat rules my life. I wanted a "CAT" word for my cat-egorical, cat-aclysmic, cat-acaustic, cat-inspired, catty, cat-achresic, cathartic remarks! These are the words I found from Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: 1. cat•a•caus•tic Math., Optics. –adj. noting a caustic surface or curve formed by the reflection of light. 2. cat·a·chre·sis, n. misuse of words, mixed metaphor 3.cat•a•gen•e•sis, n. the retrogressive evolution of a species. 4. cat•a•lex•is, n., the absence of a syllable at the beginning or end of a line of metrical verse. 5. ca•tas•ta•sis, n., the part of a drama, preceding the catastrophe, in which the action is at its height or climax. 6. ca•tas•tro•phism n. the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes. 7. cat•a•wam•pus –adj. 1. askew; awry. 2. diagonally; obliquely: We took a shortcut and walked catawampus across the field. |
| Interests | I love to read, laugh, and paint! I like to be irreverent about traditions, customs, and practices. Nobody should be put in a box and kept there. People have a right to jump out of these boxes and develop their own unique personalities. I like people like Alice (in Wonderland) who are animistic, outspoken, and curious. |
| Favorite books | Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mocking-Bird, all of Jane Austen's, Thomas Hardy's, AJ Cronin's, Kipling's, and Walter Scott's books. I enjoyed EM Forster's A Passage to India, all of Shakespeare's plays, Chetan Bhagat's novels, and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom. The last-mentioned is in the stream-of-consciousness style, but I loved the book anyway. I cannot say the same of James Joyce's Ulysses. |