Extracurricular

Guitar

I play acoustic guitar and I am learning classical guitar.

Short story

Inspired by the genius of James Thurber, I have written a short story on a threatened freshwater fish of the Western Ghats. The story first appeared in Zoos' Print 32(3): 5-9.

Cartoons

I am an armature cartoonist and I draw cartoons related to my research. Some of the already published cartoons can be found in the following PDF.

Reading

Here are some of my favorite authors and books/short stories.

  • Albert Camus
      • The outsider
      • The Myth of Sisyphus
      • Exile and the kingdom
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
      • Nausea
      • Words
      • No exit
      • The age of reason
      • Intimacy
      • The Wall
      • The Room
      • Erostratus
  • Samuel Beckett
      • Waiting for Godot
  • J. D. Salinger
      • Catcher in the rye
      • A Perfect Day for Bananafish
      • Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
      • Just Before the War with the Eskimos
      • The Laughing Man
      • Down at the Dinghy
      • For Esmé – with Love and Squalor
      • Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
      • De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period
      • Teddy
      • The Young Folks
      • The Hang of It
      • Personal Notes of an Infantryman
  • Franz Kafka
      • America
      • The Metamorphosis
      • Before the Law
      • The hunger artist
      • An imperial message
  • Hermann Hesse
      • Knulp
  • Ernst Hemingway
      • The old man and the sea
  • T. Z. Lavine
      • From Socrates to Sartre: the philosophic quest
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
      • The little prince
  • Richard Bach
      • Jonathan Livingston Seagull
      • There's no such place as far away