Asha G Kumar
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Writer, Thinker, Public Speaker, Educator |
| Location | Mumbai, India |
| Introduction | A writer, educator,YouTuber, public speaker, blogger, dreamer, thinker, and an eternal optimist. I would describe myself as a flawed fantasy, a resilient hope that springs eternally against all odds :) |
| Interests | Literature,Current Affairs, Sports, Music, Philosophy, Travel, Birding |
| Favorite movies | Several: Meryl Streep's Iron Lady, Bridges of the Madison County, Princess Diaries, Letters from Juliet, several rom coms, Sholay, QSQT, DDLJ,Ijaazat, Hrishkesh Mukherjee's films, Mr. India, Saagar |
| Favorite music | Instrumental: Western, Hindustani and Carnatic styles. Bombay Jayashri, Sudha Raghuathan, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma... melodies of 19602, 70s, 90s in Bollywood cinema, Kannada and Tamil are always on my playlist. Ghazals by Jagjit Singh, Mehdi Hasan |
| Favorite books | Books by Shashi Tharoor; Plays by Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen; Jane Austen's novels, Virginia Woolf's works, Red Oleaders by Tagore; Indian Summer by Alex Von Tunzleman, The entire collection from Blandings Castle and Jeeves by P G Wodehouse; Padma Lakshmi's Love, Loss and what we eat...; Biographies on Indira Gandhi, Michael Schumacher; Nehru and Several Short stories- Chekov; Somerset Maugham; Fiction by Jeffrey Archer; Poetry by Wordsworth; Keats, Shelley; Sylvia Plath; John Donne; T S Eliot...Urdu verses by Nida Fazli, Ghalib, Gulzar... it is a rather long list. |