Games :  Cricket, Basketball and Hockey.

            Music   :   K J Jesudas and  K S Chitra. In oldies,  Kishore Kumar and Mohd. Rafi.
                              Loves Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia's  exploits with the flute.

            Authors &
            Books   :    A long list of MALLU novels.
                                Les Miserables is the  ultimate classic.
                                Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre, for the  female casts.
                                Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is unparalleled.
                                Far from the madding crowd, is the smoothest reading.
                                Mayor of Casterbridge has the real Hardy.
                                Wuthering Heights has something tough in it.
                                Around the world in 80 days is a fairy tale.
                                War and Peace still remains in mind after years.
                                Mill on the Floss, for a sister i never had.
                                Tale of two cities and oliwer twist, stroke of a genius.
                                Scarlet Pimpernal is  real adventure.
                                Tomsawyer and Huckle  Berry finn are childhood classics.
                                O. Henry's short stories has blood of life and love.
                                Jeffrey Archer has an unimitable style to make a story out of anything.
                                Michel Crichton's novels  are ultimate in science fictions.
                                Arthur C Clarke for his imagination.
                                 I got bored with Harold Robbins after 4 novels.
                                The FountainHead - introduction to Ayn Rand.
                                Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand  affected my thinking when i was in mumbai.
                                CHAOS -  James Glieck  lighted up a new area (classical science history).
                                Does GOD play DICE - Ian Stewart gives another dimension of chaos.
                                Freedom at Midnight -  (recommended reading for all).
                                                 Collins and Lapierre charactized Historical Chaos. 
                                Indiscrete Thoughts - Yet to finish this book.
                                                Gian Rota's revelations in maths and mathematicians.

                                 BTW, who is Samuel Langhorn Clemens(Oops, did i spell it correct) ?.
                                 There are so  many i  have forgotten the titles, hope to add them later.

                                Special mention about the mallu novelists. MT,  C Radhakrishnan,
                                Mukundan, Madhavikutty, SK, OV Vijayan, Malayattoor, CV Raman Pillai......

                                Also like Ashapoorna Devi's novels in Bengali(translation),
                                UR Ananthamoorthi (Kannada, translation) , S Karanth(Kannada, translation)
 

        Poetry    :    I like Robert Frost's and Wordsworth's poems.
                             A long list of mallu poets, so not going to list  here.

        Actr(es) :  Mohan Lal and Mammooty in malayalam.  Sobhana in her roles of native
                              maidens.
                             Ompuri in hindi movies,  Madhuri and Urmila on the ladies side.
                              I like Harrison Ford movies and Catherine Zeta Jones. Oldies like
                              Omar Sherief, Gregory Peck are wonderful actors.

        Movies   :   Benhur - an impeccable historical rollback.
                              Forest Gump - i do have litlle bit of gump in me.
                              Jurrasic Park - Crichton gets on to the screen.
                              Gone with the Wind - no need to read the novel.
                              TITANIC - Well made piece.
                              Lawrence of Arabia - Excellent movie.
                              Indiana Jones - like to see all that again.
                               MohanLal's  malayalam movies in the late 80s and early 90s.
                               Vatsalyam -  'The Movie' for the common man.
 
 
        Places       : Kerala, the tropical paradise. Bombay for  its Universality.
                              Summer in Finland, is a real experience.(got bored by snow in winter).
                              StockHolm is a nice city.
                              Am enjoying switzerland now.
 

        Jobs        :    I like teaching and all set to be a teacher if everything works out well.
                              I also like research and development, especially design and
                              trouble shooting of complex systems involving both hardware and
                              software, often reminds one about  a surgical table.