Nivedita
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Location | Mumbai, India |
| Introduction | I crawled. I ran. Now, I am walking... |
| Interests | Books, theatre, music, people and cultures, causes, colours, paint brush, morning dew, night sky, wind chimes, smiling faces, Spring, rain, mountains, singing birds, scented candles, Cricket, observing the animate and the inanimate world around, travelling... |
| Favorite movies | Shawshank Redemption, Magnolia, Cry Freedom, Letters from Iwo Jima, Life is Beautiful, The colour of Paradise, I Am Sam, Bucket List, Lagaan, Poorab Aur Paschim, The Great Debaters, Before Sunrise, Anand, Hazaaron Khwahishen Aisi, Iqbal, Rang De Basanti, Casablanca, Romeo and Juliet, Kate and Leopold, Castaway, Shindler's List, Message in a Bottle, Memoirs of Geisha, A Beautiful Mind, Troy, Gone With the Wind, My Fair Lady, A Walk to Remember, Munnabhai series, Omkara, Pursuit of Happiness, Freedom Writers, The Ultimate Gift, The Sound of Music, The Pianist, Scent of a Woman, Taare Zameen Par, Roman Holiday...and I can go on... |
| Favorite music | Hindustani classical (instrumental), Semi-classical, Ghazal, Soft Jazz, Bollywood oldies, Country music |
| Favorite books | Anything that makes an interesting read - from Aristotle's Poetics to Archies comics to 'zero gravity'. However, few books and writers deserve a special mention: The Kite Runner, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Shantaram, Life Of Pi, The Color Purple, The Wonder That Was India, The Interpreter of Maladies, The Cuckold, Samskara, Gaban, Raag Darbari, The Shadow Lines, Disgrace, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Tumhare Liye, The Golden Notebook, The Awakening, The Razor's Edge; and the works of Ruskin Bond, R.K. Narayan, Premchand, Hermann Hesse, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, D.H.Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paulo Coelho, Khalil Gibran, Chekhov, Saki, Keki.N. Daruwala, Tolstoy, and Chinua Achebe. |