Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Candidate for the Mayor of Dhaka, 2008 |
| Location | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Introduction | I am an economist, historian and a critical legal theorist. I was born in the spring of 1970, just a year before Bangladesh was born. I spent my childhood years in Dhaka, the capital of then newly independent Bangladesh. I began my formal education there at St. Joseph’s school. However, I soon moved to the foothills of the Himalayas in Darjeeling and it was mainly in St. Paul’s school that my educational attitudes were formed. This was an Anglican school, the only one of its kind at the highest elevation of the world within view of the peaks of Mount Kanchenjunga. My planned field of study varied a good deal in my younger years, and between the ages of three and seventeen, I seriously flirted, in turn, with literature, mathematics, history, physics, and philosophy, before settling for life for the eccentric charms of economics. My life has been spent in greater or less communion with the State University of New York at Stony Brook, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Maryland and George Mason University. |
| Interests | Graeco-Roman Sculpture, Travel, Opera. |
| Favorite Movies | Roman Holiday, Sense and Sensibility, Howards End, Titanic, Sound of Music, All the rivers run, Island on top of the world |
| Favorite Music | Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Handel's Water Music, Hayden's Symphony No. 39 in G Minor: Minuet - Trio, Baroque Arias, Beethoven's 5th Symphony. |
| Favorite Books | Aenid, Gitanjali, War and Peace, Notes From Underground, Tradition and Individual Talent, Two Cheers For Democracy, Home and the World. |
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