Sashi

Georgia Tech, IIT Kharagpur

Battling Dogbert, i.e., Management Consulting

Walt Whitman Club of Amatory - Founder and Sole Member

Reading (especially poetry), writing, thinking (currently about cities, exiles, histories and sepia photographs), backpacking, Vipassana, photography, cinema, explorations of urban spaces (art galleries, museums, architecture) & wild spaces (Appalachia, orinthology, driftwood, backpacking), walking railway right-of-way(s), live music (cover bands to symphony)

Currently reading: Richard Powers - 'Echo Maker', Ian Frazier -'Family', Amartya Sen - 'Argumentative Indian' Just Finished Reading: Saul Bellow - 'The Adventures of Augie March', Tom Riess - 'The Orientalist', Charles Wright - 'The World of the Ten Thousand Things', Mary Oliver - 'American Primitive', Geoff Dyer - 'The Ongoing Moment', Seamus Heaney - 'Poems: 1965-1975', Richard Powers - 'The Time of Our Singing', John Banville - 'Ghosts', Alice McDermott - 'Charming Billy'. Yes, I am a greedy pig when it comes to books

Recent Good Ones: Der Untergang, Kontroll, Saraband, 2046, Babel, In The Mood For Love

Recent Good Listens: Stan Getz - 'The Bossa Nova Years', Nitin Sawhney - 'Philtre'

I have cast out this devil many years ago.

Pisces

Few convenient adjectives:

Intellectual,
Outdoorsy,
Reader,
Writer,
Art Consumer,
Anti-kitsch,
quasi Buddhist-capitalist (read E. F. Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful"),
bezrodniy kosmopoli, who dwells in airports

Even though I have a graduate degree in engineering (i.e., I am a certified geek), I prefer to think of myself as a misplaced or derailed writer. If you would like to know more about what goes on in my head, I will let you deduce by pointing you to ze coredump aka blog here:
Buoyantville

You read books (optimally, you are a raving bibliophile - books make for excellent decor too); you watch movies in languages that you don't know and understand, wishing that you were there, in that elsewhere; you have to have frequent mind-gasams (not only due to ingestion of chemicals); you think life is incomplete or tasteless sans great music (ex: Bach or Dylan) and great art (ex: Velasquez or Salgado); you like animals & birds (of the human kind found in cities as well; also if you have a dog that I can befriend that will be lovely), little people, and (perhaps) bugs (at least those belonging to the Lepidoptera family); and your operative and keynote adjectives are kind, curious, and integral.