Random List - People and Places I like

Always like
- Manu Ginobli
- Dev Ananad
- Roger Federer
- Kapil Dev - The best there is, was or will be
- Leander Paes
- Vijay Amritraj
- Bill Maher
- Amitabh Bacchan
- Rahul Dravid
- Vishwanathan Anand
- JRD & Ratan Tata
- Geet Sethi
- Aishwarya Rai
- Madhubala
- Govinda
- Pondicherry
- Singapore
- My Family
- Mobikes
- Traveling
- Movies
- Akshay Kumar
- Manoj Bajpai
- Sonali Bendre
- MJ
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- Always grateful to
My Country, Family & Friends, Subhas Chandra Bose, Shaheed Bhagat Singh , Chandrashekhar Azad , Sardar Patel, Lala Lajpat Rai, Lal Bahadur Shastri , Lakshmi Bai- Jhansi Ki Rani, Shivaji Maratha, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Veer Savarkar , Rajkumari Amrit Kaur , Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit , Abdul Ghaffar Khan , Pattabhi Sitaramayya , Bipin Chandra Pal , Mangal Pandey , Aruna Asaf Ali, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Birju Maharaj, Kishore Kumar , Kundan Lal Saigal , Mohammed Rafi, C.V. Raman , Homi Bhabha , Jagdish Chandra Bose , Meghnad Saha , M. Visvesvaraya , Anil Kakodkar, Birbal Sahni , Srinivasa Ramanujan , Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar , Har Gobind Khorana, Dayanand Saraswati , Raja Ram Mohan Roy , Ramakrishna Paramhansa , Swami Vivekananda , Vinoba Bhave , Kiran Bedi , Medha Patkar , Shanta Sinha , Baba Amte , Jyotiba Phule , Shahu Chhatrapati ,Bankim Chandra Chatterjee , Premchand , Rabindranath Tagore , Anita Desai , Arundhati Roy , Jhumpa Lahiri , Mulk Raj Anand , R.K. Narayan , Salman Rushdie , Vikram Seth , V.S. Naipaul , Kiran Desai , Mahadevi Varma , Shashi Deshpande , Shobha De , Khushwant Singh , Nirad C. Chaudhuri , Subhadra Kumari Chauhan , Subramanya Bharathi , Mahasweta Devi ,Girija Devi , Kumar Gandharva , Vishwanath Rao Ringe , Bhimsen Joshi , Pandit Jasraj , Balamurali Krishna , Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Tenzing Norgay , Mirabai , Sister Nivedita , M G Ranade , Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Current Favorites
Katrina Kaif
Harold & KUMAR
Ayesha Takia


Like most of the time
Underdogs
Nadal - not when he plays FedEx
London
Dojokovic -- not when he plays FedEx
A Rod
Manny Ramirez
Goa
Pokhara - Nepal
Bombay
Calcutta
Dalhousie


Used to like
Sachin Tendulkar
Kareena
Salman
Mahesh Bhupathi
Simla
Mussourie
Rajesh Khanna



Do not like
Gavaskar
Ravi Shastri
Donald Trump
Sharukh Khan - overpaid, undertalented! Certainly Successful.
Saif
Chandigarh
Dilip Kumar



Do not like at all
Indian Counselor Office New York - I guess it will be the same for many Indian Embassies/Offices across the world. Expect a full rant on this soon.

Some of the Movies I Like

Sanj's Favorite Movies - some of them

* Action:
Pirates of the Carribbean
Sin City
Rambo
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Reservoir Dogs
Blade Runner
Seven
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
Kill Bill 1
Gladiator
Die Hard
Snatch
Scarface
The Usual Suspects
American History X
The Departed
Terminator 2

* Drama:
Its a beautiful life
* Amores perros
* The Sixth Sense
* Mystic River
* The Shawshank Redemption
* Memento
* American Beauty
* Raging Bull
* Donny Darko
* Midnight Express

* Comedy:
Harold & Kumar Whitecastle
* Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
* Beverly Hills Cop
* Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
* Shaun of the Dead
* A fish called Wanda

* Desi / Bollywood:
Sholay
* 1942 A Love Story
* Border
* Haqeeqat
* Woh Saat Din
* Kalyug
* Parinda
* Satya
* Munna Bhai MBBS
* Maqbool
* Pinjar
* Company
* DDLJ
* Bade Miyan Chotte Miyan
* Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke
* Ghayal
* Hyderabad Blues
* Maachis
* Gol Maal
* Amar Akbar Anthony
* Zanjeer
* Anand
* Purab Aur Paschim
* Johny Mera Naam
* Padosan
* Jewel Thief
* Upkar
* Guide
* Kaagaz Ke Phool
* Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
* Do Aankhen Barah Haath
* Jagte Raho

Movies I found Disappointing:
American Gangster - Overhyped
* Hot Fuzz - indecisive director
* The Talented Mr Ripley - what the f*** is this movie! So terrible
* The Ocean's twelve - what the f*** is this movie! So terrible