DRJG

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Introduction Strived hard. Exhausted for a while now... Just as well there is so much to read, to see, and what a wonderful boon is the ever growing internet, not to mention (and why not?!) the cable channels, so one gets to see so much that one could never see in a lifetime.
Interests Reading, Music and Arts (appreciation), Travel, ...
Favorite Movies Jodhaa Akbar, Jab We Met, Blood Diamond, Gandhi My Father, A Wednesday, TZP, Doghi, Departed, Phaniamma, Roman Holiday, An Affair To Remember, Sabrina, Cactus Flower, Notorious, Bringing Up Baby, HAHK, Awara, Guide, Hum Dono, Bandini, Sujata, Trishul, Parama, Sardar, Ramkrishna, Lakshya, Krrish, Dhoom II, Do Bigha Zamin, Mili, Parichay, Khushboo, Meera, Lal Patthar, Current, Apna Jahan, Main Zinda Hoon, Rihaaee, ...Just a few of the good ones there..
Favorite Music Indian and western Classical, old Hindi, Ravindra sangeet, Garaba (folk genuine), some of new Hindi, Ballet, ... Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin, Mahler, Handel, Vivaldi, Dvorak, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky Korsakov, Berlioz, Ravel, ....
Favorite Books James Hilton (Lost Horizon, Random Harvest, and almost all others too), George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair (Boston, Brass Check, and most particularly the 11 volume series beginning with "World's End"), John Grisham (everything he has written so far), Frederick Forsyth (everything so far), Ravindranath (Poems, Songs, Stories), Yashpal (Zhootha Sach), Ashapurna Devi (Pratham Pratishruti, Suvarnalata, ...), ...many, many more ...