Activities

Music
Currently, I am trying to teach myself to play the guitar.
Guitar Links:
  1. http://www.nextlevelguitar.com/ - Also check out their youtube videos
  2. http://members.iinet.net.au/~pgt/
  3. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/
Courses that I took:
  1. Appreciation of Hindustani Classical Music - IIT Bombay
  2. Composers 1500-1800 (Western) - Georgia Tech

Links to Free Downloads:
  1. Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - [link]
Links useful for Indian Classical Music:
  1. Online Hindustani Music Resources (compiled by Matt Rahaim)
  2. Tabla (C. Joye's webpage)
Music Related Software:
  1. Lilypond
  2. Your Tanpura
Music Related Articles:
  1. On Gangubai Hangal by Sabina Sehgal

  2. The Night I Met Einstein - Jerome Weidman
Travelling
Photos from Europe [link]

Reading
Here are a few of the books I've really enjoyed reading. I've tried to give credit to whoever recommended it to me. If I've missed someone please pardon.
  1. Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell
  2. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  3. Germinal - Emile Zola (Gireeja)
  4. Life is Elsewhere - Milan Kundera (my father)
  5. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  6. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse (Prakash Sir and Gireeja)
  7. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak (my father)
  8. Man and Superman - Bernard Shaw
  10. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  11. Of Human Bondage - W Somerset Maugham (Purushottam)
  12. The Stranger (the Outsider) - Albert Camus (Purushottam)
  13. The Fall - Albert Camus
  14. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway
  15. Men of Mathematics - E. T. Bell
  16. A Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  17. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (Purushottam)
Links to some great essays online:
  1. Why I Am An Atheist ? - Bhagat Singh.
  2. Castes In India - B. R. Ambedkar.
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