Name:

Amit

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Biography

Age:

32

Joined:

June 26, 2006

Last Sign In:

3 weeks ago

Subscribers:

5

Website:

Hometown:

Pendra Road/Bilaspur

Country:

India

Occupation:

Student/Writer/Activist

Schools:

Lawrence School, Lovedale, Daly College, Indore, Modern School, Delhi, St. Stephen's College, JNU

Hobbies:

God, Cinema, Food, Hills, Art, Bibliophilia, Writing, Cooking For Friends, Walking In the Woods, Painting, Pounding the Piano, Badminton, Mountaineering, Trout-fishing

Movies:

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz), It Happened One Night (Frank Capra), 8½ (Federico Fellini), Citizen Kane (Orson Welles), Roman Holiday (William Wyler), Ran (Akira Kurosawa), Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock),The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin), Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray), Sabrina (Billy Wilder), The Lion in Winter (Screenplay: James Goldman), Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman), Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly), Three Colors Trilogy (Kieslowski), जाने भी दो यारों (Kundan Shah), Annie Hall (Woody Allen), Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel),Talk To Her (Pédro Almodovàr), Kandahar (Makhmalbaf), Lolita (Stanley Kubrick), All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic), The Godfather (Francis Coppola), The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards), The Shawshank Redemption, The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme), Le petit Soldat (Godard), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, A Fish Called Wanda, When Harry Met Sally, पड़ोसन, अंगूर, छोटी सी बात, गोलमाल, उमराओ जान, विजेता, चलती का नाम गाड़ी, लगे रहो..., I Love Lucy, Lost

Music:

Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), Tannhauser (Wagner), Requiem (Mozart), Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky), Lata Mangeshkar, Abida Parveen, U2, Pink Floyd, Patsy Cline, Robbie Williams, Maria Callas, Tango, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Jim Reeves, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Khayyam, Gulzar-RD Burman, Arturo Toscanini, Celine Dion, Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff), The Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss), Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Bach), Bjork, Herbert Von Karajan, Madame Butterfly (Puccini), La Nozzi di Figaro (Mozart), Yehudi Menuhin, Henry Mancini, Planets (Holst), Kajararé, Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni), Chhattisgarhi Folk (karma, suva, panthi-dadariya, chandaini-gonda, gam'mat-nacha, pandwani, Lakshman Masturia), Abba, The Carpenters, Ella Fitzgerald, Englebert Humperdinck, Bruce Springsteen, Rekha Bharadwaj

Books:

The Holy Bible, William Shakespeare (Hamlet, King Lear), The Divine Comedy (Dante), Don Quixote (Cervantes), Wasteland (T.S. Eliot), Iliad (Homer), Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez), The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco), Lolita (Nabokov), Midnight's Children (Rushdie), My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk), The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Gandhi), Discovery of India (Nehru), Harold Bloom, The Naked Ape (Desmond Morris), An Idea of India (Sunil Khilnani), Niall Ferguson, Eric Von Hobsbawm, Braudel, Pieter Geyl, Frederick J. Turner, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer), The Mahabharta, Quran-é-sharif, Karen Armstrong, El Aleph (Jorge Borges), Paradise Lost (Milton), Essais (Montaigne), Working a Democratic Constitution (Granville Austin), Wilt (Tom Sharpe), Harold Pinter, The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek), Michel de Foucault, Diplomacy (Kissinger), Jared Diamond, Orientalism (Edward Said), Verrier Elwin, Noam Chomsky, David Gilmour