Friday, May 20, 2005

Favourites

You can tell a person from his favourites.For example if you meet someone who says his favourite movie is Star Wars, you instantly make a mental image of that person.You sort of attribute certain characters to him/her depending on his/her fav.

Over the period of time they have changed. But I have been consistent more or less.
Though i cannot guarantee this will stick.


So here's my list

Beer:
Kingfisher

Whiskey:
Chivas Regal

Cigarette:
Gold Flake

Dish:
Zhunka Bhakar with Thecha (Marathi Dish)
Wangi Masala (Maratha Style)

Car:
Maruti Gypsy
Honda CRV

Attire:
Jeans & Kurta

Color:
Blue

Season:
Summer

Book:
Defending India - Jaswant Singh
India: A Million Mutinies Now - V.S. Naipaul

Sports:
Sachin Tendulkar
Ajay Jadeja
Boris Becker
Pete Sampras
Pele
Evander Holyfield
Wasim Akram


Actors:
Sanjeev Kumar
Al Pacino
Jaya Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan (pre-1990)
Benicio Del Toro

Movies:
Godfather I & II
Sholay
Deewar
Angoor
Shawashank's Redemption
QSQT
Shatranj Kay Khiladi
Masoom
Pulp Fiction
Life is Beautiful
Monsoon Wedding
Kalyug
JFK

Music:
RD Burman
Jatin-Lalit
Marasim

Current Affairs:
Rediff.com
India Today
CNN.com

Television:
Sienfeld
Friends
O'ReillyFactor
Jay Leno

Places:
Nagpur
Bombay
Ooty
Kashmir
Pittsburg
Chicago

Ads:
Operation Flood
Amul
Rashtriya Saksharta Mission
Fevicol
British Airways
AOL
Capital One
ITC

Leaders:
Chanakya
Sardar Patel
Narendra Modi
Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thacher
Kemal Atatürk

Business:
Jamshedji Tata
Laxmanrao Kirloskar
Dhirubhai Ambani
Henry Ford
Walt Disney

Organisation:
Infosys
Tatas

Science
Albert Einstein
The Wright Brother

Technology:
Bill Gates
Larry Page and Sergey Brin



Great Ones from Past:
Adi Shankaracharya
Swami Vivekanand
Shivaji Maharaj
Chanakya

People I admire:
Pu La Deshpande
Sir M. Visvesvaraya
Gulzar
L.K Advani
Verghese Kurien
Aroon Puri
Harsha Bhogle
Prannoy Roy
Sabeer Bhatia
Rajeev Srinivasan
V.S Naipaul
Shekhar Kapoor
Bill O'Rielly
Quantine Tarantino
Swapan Das Gupta
Arun Jaitley
Kanchan Gupta
George Fernandes
Sam Pitroda
Jairam Ramesh
Manohar Parrikar
Asha Bhonsale
Bharat Dabholkar
Sudhir Phadke
Sushma Swaraj
Lata Mangeshkar
Tavleen Singh
Satyajit Ray
Govind Nihalani
Shyam Benegal
Amrish Puri
Hema Malini
Piyush Pandey
Ekta Kapoor
Ram Gopal Verma


I owe them a salute:
The India Army Jawans
RSS workers
The Dabbawalas of Mumbai
Shri Mahila Gram Udyog

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