Extracurricular
Guitar
Guitar
I play acoustic guitar and I am learning classical guitar.
Short story
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
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
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