1. I find things distasteful very easily - perverted jokes, slapstick comedy, metal, too much ginger but I almost never find something physically disgusting; blood and gore, ugly pornographic scenes, bad hygiene, people taking a dump, poultry getting butchered - none of these would bother me, say, while I am eating.
2. I truly believe that as I get older I will grow handsomer, i.e. unless I go bald.
3. I have a thing for people's ears. I notice them, I compare them, I remember people by them and I like ear jewelery on women.
4. As a child, I was tricked into believing that Nana Patekar is a dwarf and that he stood on a stool to give his takes, which was later touched up by special effects. I believed it for longer than I am proud of.
5. For someone generally mild mannered and non-confrontational, I got into more than my share of fist-fights through high school. I don't know why.
6. For as long as I can remember, my most innate desire has been to be a cricket analyst. Someday, I want to have a blog on Cricinfo.
7. I am remarkably untouched by anything spiritual in nature. Nothing religious or spiritual ever moves me and I am completely untouched by the question of the existence of god. I sometimes find that strange.
8. From 1998 to 2006 i.e., roughly from the age of 11 to 19, I went through a no tears streak. I did not cry even once in that period.
9. Significant influences in my adolescent years included The Godfather(novel), Ayn Rand, Atticus Finch, Rahul Dravid, the Angry Young Man movies of Amitabh Bachchan, Letters from a father to a daughter by Nehru, Galahad Threepwood and Norman Lewis.
10. Despite having a deep baritone, I shriek girlishly in a high pitched voice when taken by surprise or in pain. Why this happens remains a mystery to me.
11. I like to collect trivia on any subject of interest to me. I spend hours on Google and Wikipedia.
12. I think VVS Laxman is the most gifted batsman I have ever seen bat.
13. I am not a big fan of the movies Bollywood churns out but if someone says that a certain movie 'insulted their intelligence', I find it extremely annoying.
14. I am obsessed with The Beatles, Hugh Laurie, Rahul Dravid, Kate Hepburn, A Suitable Boy and the song Autumn Leaves.
15. I went to what was primarily a girls' school for quite a few years, as a kid.
16. I do not think that there is another book as full of wisdom as The Godfather. I believe it truly contains the answer to all the questions in life. In the words of Nora Ephron, it is the I-Ching, the sum of all intelligence.
17. James Stewart is my favorite hero of all time.
18. I have a sharp memory and am generally good at remembering all sorts of dates, entire conversations, people's faces, movie dialogues, short stories and songs. I want people around me to create history so that I can chronicle it.
19. I have not read or seen any of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
20. My favorite things would include the following - Billy Wilder's films, Salim-Javed's screenwriting, Nat King Cole's singing, Shane Warne's bowling, John Donne's The Expostulation, John Lennon's voice, the TV series BlackAdder, Bade Bhai Sahab by Premchand, the Beatles songs composed by George Harrison, Love Letters by A R Gurney, Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, the movie Dil Se, Ruskin Bond's essays, Rahul Dravid's late cuts, Amma's curd chicken dish and the Christopher Walken sequence from Pulp Fiction.
21. How Irfan Pathan could lose his prodigious swing bothers me a lot. Is it really possible? How can you know how to move a ball like that and forget it!?!
22. I enjoyed Biology a lot in high school. The cardio-vascular system was my favorite organ system.
23. English Breakfast is my favorite cuisine.
24. Wuthering Heights is my favorite classic.
25. My eyes are not particularly small. But they are deep-set and beady.
16. I do not think that there is another book as full of wisdom as The Godfather. I believe it truly contains the answer to all the questions in life. In the words of Nora Ephron, it is the I-Ching, the sum of all intelligence.
17. James Stewart is my favorite hero of all time.
18. I have a sharp memory and am generally good at remembering all sorts of dates, entire conversations, people's faces, movie dialogues, short stories and songs. I want people around me to create history so that I can chronicle it.
19. I have not read or seen any of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
20. My favorite things would include the following - Billy Wilder's films, Salim-Javed's screenwriting, Nat King Cole's singing, Shane Warne's bowling, John Donne's The Expostulation, John Lennon's voice, the TV series BlackAdder, Bade Bhai Sahab by Premchand, the Beatles songs composed by George Harrison, Love Letters by A R Gurney, Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, the movie Dil Se, Ruskin Bond's essays, Rahul Dravid's late cuts, Amma's curd chicken dish and the Christopher Walken sequence from Pulp Fiction.
21. How Irfan Pathan could lose his prodigious swing bothers me a lot. Is it really possible? How can you know how to move a ball like that and forget it!?!
22. I enjoyed Biology a lot in high school. The cardio-vascular system was my favorite organ system.
23. English Breakfast is my favorite cuisine.
24. Wuthering Heights is my favorite classic.
25. My eyes are not particularly small. But they are deep-set and beady.
