Pankaj Jain
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Education
- Location: NC : United States
About Me
Thanks for visiting my blog. I am from a small town Pali in Rajasthan. After qualifying as a software engineer, moved to the USA. It was here, that I was drawn to India's knowledge traditions and pursued the Master's degree (Columbia University) and later PhD in Indic Traditions and Ecology (University of Iowa). I have taught at Rutgers, Kean, Iowa, and New Jersey City University. Currently I am teaching Indian languages, films, ecology, and traditions at North Carolina State University. My academic page: http://www.IndicUniversity.org
Interests
Favorite Movies
- Films directed by Bimal Roy
- Satyajit Ray
- Raj Kapoor
- Shyam Benegal
- Govind Nihlani. Hollywood classics such as Ben Hur
- Ten Commandments
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Casablanca
- Gandhi and by Hitchcock.
Favorite Music
- Ghazals of Mehdi Hassan and Jagjit Singh. Songs of Madan Mohan
- Roshan
- SD Burman
- Kaifi Azmi
- Sahir
- Khayyam
- Gulzar
- Lata
- Mazrooh
- etc.
Favorite Books
- Upanishads
- Gita
- Ramayana
- Mahabharata
- Autobiography of Gandhi
- Imagining India by Ronald Inden
- India Unbound by Gurcharan Das
- Classical Hindu Thought by Arvind Sharma
- Hinduism by Vasudha Narayanan
- Castes of Mind by Nicholas Dirks
- Dowry Murder by Veena Oldenburg
- World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
- How much should a person consume by Ramachandra Guha.
Pankaj Jain's Blogs
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