Sandeep Gupta

My blogs

About me

Introduction I am 45 years old, and enjoy writing about nature, the environment, music and economics. I used to be an athlete, but now content myself with playing tennis and walking. I am an ancient history buff. I love rock and classical music (old Ludwig Van, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius and Amadeus), as well as jazz.
Interests Trekking, mountains, writing, music, ancient Near Eastern history, documentary making, valiant attempts to play the guitar, macro-economics
Favorite Movies Movies by Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood, Monty Python, some Oliver Stone movies
Favorite Music Favorite bands - the Who, Jimi Hendrix and the Experience, Fairport Convention, Ocean Colour Scene, The Faces, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Blur. Favorite classical music - Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Moonlight Sonata, The Rustic Cavalier, Most of Mozart, Chopin and Listz
Favorite Books Creation and Julian by Gore Vidal, Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiesen, travel books (V. S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux), historical fiction by Robert Graves, anything by Henning Mankell, P.G. Wodehouse