Extracurricular

Guitar

I play acoustic guitar and I am learning classical guitar.

Poems

• Death
• Escape to existentialism
• A dream
• Illusion of life
• Intimacy
• Delusion
• Condemned
• Squalor
• Supraconsciousness
• Come with a white rose
• Eclectic

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.

• There is a unicorn in the water

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.

• Fish Tales

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