favorite Books:: click here to download a list of books in my LIBRARY
favorite Writers::
Salman Rushdie, R K Narayan, Amartya Sen, Khushwant Singh, Munshi Premchand, Rabindranath Tagore, Shashi Tharur, Devdutt Pattanaik,
William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Ayn Rand, Bertrand Russel, Taslima Nasrin,
Albert Einstein, Stephen William Hawking, Ankit Fadia,
Dalai Lama, P N Oak, Seth Godin, and books by people I follow [mentioned in the column next]
favorite Poets::
INDIAN: Ashok Chakradhar, Kaka Hathrasi, Surendra Sharama, Hullad Muradabadi, Shail Chaturvedi, Kabir, Chand Bardai, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', Gulzar, Bharatendu Harishchandra, Amir Khusro, Gopaldas Neeraj, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Sumitranandan Pant, Jaishankar Prasad, Surdas, Tulsidas, Mira Bai, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Javed Akhtar, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Maithili Sharan Gupta, Mahadevi Varma, Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Shardha Ram Phillauri(author of Jai Jagdish Hare), Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Ram Prasad Bismil, Muhammad Iqbal, & many many others.....
INTERNATIONAL: John Keats, William Wordsworth, John Milton, & an endless list .....
favorite Comic Characters::
INDIAN: Chacha Chaudhary & Saaboo, Nagraj, Super Commando Dhruv, Bhokal, Billoo, Pinki, Fighter Toads, Banke Lal, Doga,
INTERNATIONAL: Batman (the only DC character I like), entire Marvel universe