It's quite difficult to say about oneself, especially if one is introvert. Thank God! You guys are not asking for a public performance!
Well, My name is Rakesh. A Brahmin from Benaras (...and I am proud of my origin), who is so lazy that he is quite happy to see the worm turn.
... well...
...um...
...something tells me that by now you would have learned that I have got nothing to say about me....
:(
p.s.: Don't got a photo yet. Will publish as soon as a photographer agrees to shoot me.
Don't grin so happily... I meant, by a camera.
...Ummph. My interests:
Shayaree: My favorite shayers are: Mirza Asadullah Begh Khan 'Ghalib', Sultan Bahadur Shah 'Zafar', Mirza Nawab Khan Dagh 'Dehlavi', Faiz Ahmed 'Faiz', Maulana 'Hasrat' Mohani, Ustad Khwaza Ahmed Abbas 'Zouq' (he was teacher of Sultan Bahadur Shah 'Zafar', the last Mughal Emporer in India), Meer Taqi 'Meeer', Sampooran Singh 'Gulzar', 'Nida'Fazli, 'Qateel' Shifaee, Sudershan 'Faqri'... etc.
Music: Indian classical music.
I am a flute player and have learnt under Pandit Aravindrao Patwardhan, Pandit Raghunath Seth and Pandit Ronu Majumdar. To complement melody, I learnt Percussion by the Grand Maestro Ustad Allarakha.
Old Music(and I mean OLD {before 1942-1965} songs)... Period.: Hemant Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Talat Mehmood, Abhash Kumar Ganguli (Guess who?), Timir Baran, Ashok Kumar, Jaganmaya Mitra, Dwijen Mukharjee, Subir Sen... the list will go on and the site will kick me out!
Literature: Classic: Charles Dickens, Samuel T. Clemens (AKA Mark Twain ;)
