About Me

I am just an eager reader who likes to talk about the books he reads. I have been reading since I was a kid, but serious reading started when I came in eighth standard. My areas of interest are: History, Religion, Politics, Literature, Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, Ecology, Sociobiology, Geology and popular works in other sciences. In history and religion I have special interest in Islam, Christianity and Communism. In literature, I have read Russian, English and Bangla literature extensively, and have done some peripheral readings of French, American, South African, Nigerian and Hindi literature. Some of my other interests are traveling and photography.

I have done my M.A. in English Literature from M.L.B. College Gwalior. Professionally I am a lecturer of English Language & Literature in P.G.V. College, Gwalior.

I love my city! One thing which distinguishes me from my favorite author Naipaul is that unlike him I am very much rooted in my place. I grew up in Gwalior and I feel it in my bones. It throbs in my sentences; in my feelings. And one thing which I desire so much to write about is my city.

I love typing on my laptop! I feel myself complete in typing. Hence the name!

I am avid movie-watcher too, mostly Hollywood and then Vintage Bollywood. Some of my favorites are:

1. Crouching Tiger: The Hidden Dragon
2. The Prestige
3. The Gladiator
4. Blood Diamond
5. First Blood
6. The Dark Knight
7. Die Hard
8. Pretty Woman
9. My Best Friend’s Wedding
10. Cars
11. Finding Nemo
12. Kung Fu Panda
13. Erin Brokovich
14. A Beautiful Mind
15. Braveheart
16. Toy Story
17. You’ve Got Mail
18. Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
19. The Matrix
20. Good, Bad and Ugly

My favorite books are:

A. Fiction

1. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. War and Peace – Lev Tolstoy
3. Resurrection – Lev Tolstoy
4. Anna Karenina – Lev Tolstoy
5. My Universities – Maksim Gorky
6. My Childhood – Maksim Gorky
7. A Hunter’s Sketches – Ivan Turgenev
8. How the Steel was Tempered – Nikolai Ostrovsky
9. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
10. And Quiet Flows the Don – Mikhail Sholokhov
11. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
12. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
13. The Razor’s Edge – Somersat Maugham
14. Of Human Bondage – Somersat Maugham
15. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
17. A House for Mr. Biswas – V S Naipaul
18. A Bend in the River – V S Naipaul
19. The Enigma of Arrival – V S Naipaul
20. Gaban – Premchand
21. Khanjan Nayan – Amrit Lal Nagar
22. Kapal Kundala  - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee