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gangopadhyay.ami
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About me : I am based out of Jaipur, looking for frnds wth a sense of humour and an interest in the 1der of creation.   like literature, history, technology, music, and travelling.Dislike meanness, pettyness and deceit.  Appreciate beauty, honesty and character (none of which I can claim I have....haha) Looking for....wht else?....frndship. ( Original im not!!!)  I am not judgemental, and i like to have and give adequate space.  I have a strong sense of right and wrong, ethics and justice, and hence cannot jell with the bizarre or the outre'. I would like to join group activities like hiking, trekking, adventure sports and cross-country running anywhere |
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Interest & Hobbies : music- To listen to and strum on a guitar |
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Favorite Music & Artists : Western? Clapton, Beatles, Santana, Marley, Tosh, Armstrong,Diamond, Zappa, Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, Rock Operas list is endless  Eastern? Lalgudi, Joshi, Kishore, Rafi, Hemant, Suchitra, list is endless. I am partial to reggae, rock, jazz and western classical ( preferably Beethoven and Bach) One day listening to Wynton Marsalis playing Baroque, one day Ennio Morricone/ Shadows/ Shakti, ... suddenly scoot over to the Oldies ... then take a right angled turn and head over to jethro Tull, Judas Priest, Dylan, guthrie, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Supertramp ... u getthepicture? ... Ledzep interposed between the Kingston Trio and Pink Floyd, The Travelling Wiburys or Carpenters sandwiched between Bach and Iron Maiden or Twisted Sister ... Sick! |
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Favorite Books & Authors : Well lets start with Pelham Grenville Woodhouse shall we? Progress on to Dornford Yates, Joseph Heller,Stephen Leacock, Jerome K Jerome and George Mikes?Above all Aldous Huxley...satisfied? On a lazy sunday afternoon might be a Crichton,Brown or Macclean/clone.... When reflective/happy? Jack London, Somerset Maugham,Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe...even Dickens, trollope, galsworthy or HG wells....oscar wilde and Conan Doyle though the canon is almost stored in memory...in the same vein, John Dickson carr, Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie... I have a weakness for 19th century english novels also I like to read and write doggerel. I have also been known to read tolstoy, Michener, Joyce, auden, tom wolfe, ee doctorow...ah heck! list wld go on and on via steinbeck, ayn rand , margaret mitchel and so on and so forth ever and anon I have even been known to read epics and poetry/travellogues, and the occasional smut...be warned! predictable i am not |
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Favorite Movies, Actors & Directors : CLINT, CONNERY HANKS BACHCHAN FONDA BRANDO Ingrid bergman! audrey hepburn! julie andrews! jodie foster! meryl streep! The Tramp, James Bond Films, Life Is Beautiful, Ghare Baire, My Fair Lady, Sound Of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Casablanca, Wild Geese, Crazy Boys at the olympics, Laurel & Hardy Films, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, Seven Samurai, Magnificent Seven, Sholay, Rebecca, Bees Saal Baad, Madhumati, Do Bigha Zameen, Close Encounters of the Third kind, ET, Indiana Jones Films, Star Wars, star Trek ( whatever episode/film), Doctor Zhivago, Bridge Over The River Kwai, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, War & Peace, To Kill A Mocking Bird, etc etc etc |
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Eastern Lights and western walls |
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Posted on: Sep 13, '09, 12:24 pm | 39 Comment(s) |
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| The subject of Orientalism has been well explored in books by Edward Said ( Orientalism ), and by myriads others, AL Basham ( The Wo... more... |
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Autumn |
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Posted on: Sep 12, '09, 5:05 pm | 17 Comment(s) |
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| the sudden hot influx of tears
warns me that time is up
Enough of dry wordy stuff
It is time to feel again
The passing of the se... more... |
