Arnab Bhattacharya
I love:
- Reading books: I have now mostly shifted to non-fiction, especially history. Bangla (বাংলা) is still my most read and most loved language.
- Learning languages: This is a recent one. Not much to showcase still, though. Rather, I am more fascinated with the overall similarity of Indian languages, despite their individual nuances.
- Music: I have never liked the recent Bollywood songs (post-2000) or English songs except a handful. My favourite remains Bangla Adhunik and, of course, Rabindrasangeet. I also like to listen to old Hindi songs of 50s to 80s. Classical music remains a favourite as well.
- Parallel cinema: World cinema is so rich! Yet, I end up watching Bollywood and Hollywood run-off-the-mill trash, and more recently, even trashier OTT content.
- Leg-pulling: Leg-pulling friends is fun. According to most of them, this should rank much higher in my list of loved things.
- Indoor/board games: Ludo, carrom and cards are my favourites.
- Games and sports: Badminton, etc. Football, however, remains as my best loved sport (I am not fit enough to play it for any meaningful period now, though). I am against cricket, but I dare anyone to challenge me about trivia of Indian batsmen, especially during Dada's captaincy.
- Culture: I am pained to see the death of indigenous culture across the world. Probably more painful is my contribution towards saving it, which is next to zero.
- Tourism: Nowadays, I am getting less and less chance in visiting interesting places in interesting ways. In a strange way, though, I wish there is no easy tourism so that pristine places remain pristine and not get spoiled by rich tourists.
- Drama: Actually, I love performing as much as watching.
- Sleeping: Sleeping gives me the peace that my mind craves for all the time.
Special mention goes to my son TAPPAI (টপ্পাই) and daughter BRISHTI (বৃষ্টি).
They are much older now than these pictures. Unfortunately, their father is too lazy (and the pictures are too good) to post up-to-date pictures. In any case, such pictures are eternal.
I wish I could:
- Make my country proud: Obvious! And, sorry for not believing in global citizenship.
- Be a clean political leader: It is actually so tough to be honest in personal life that I might as well forget about anything else.
- Read more books: Both fiction and non-fiction.
- Play more: Again, if only I did not waste so much time on useless things.
- Spend more time with my children: Needless to elaborate.
- Visit more places: And not cities, please, but rather some really interesting places.
- Write: Fiction (including history-based).
- Sleep less: Contradiction for a sleep-lover, isn't it? Not really! (I leave finding the rationale to you.)
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