Getting to know you a little better

[Sharadha]

Share the following about yourself with the group -

Birthday (we'll wish you!):
Favourite cuisine:
Favourite dish:
Favourite book:
Favourite genre:
Favourite quote:
Favourite author:
Your philosophy in life:

[Sharadha]

Birthday: November 11th
Favourite cuisine: Anything vegetarian
Favourite dish: Pasta
Favourite book: Pride and Prejudice
Favourite genre: Literature
Favourite quote: 'Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.' - Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray
Favourite author: Sidney Sheldon
Your philosophy in life: Face one day at a time.

[Abhishek]

Birthday: April 29th
Favourite cuisine: Anything Non vegetable
Favourite dish: Butter chicken and ch. kabab
Favourite book: My sisters keeper
Favourite genre: Romnace Fiction
Favourite quote: 'You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen..' - Paulo Coelho, By the river Piedra I sat down and wept
Favourite author: Paulo
Your philosophy in life: Don't be sad, replace sadness with happiness

[Nadeem]

Birthday: 19th May :P

Favourite cuisine: I love Seafood

Favourite dish: anything that have prawns in it

Favourite book: Angels and Demon

Favourite genre: Thrillers and suspense

Favourite quote: People were created to be loved, Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because " things are being loved and people are being used !!!

Favourite author: Dan Brown

Your philosophy in life: In the end...its family that matters and loves you most !!!

[Prakhar]

Birthday (we'll wish you!): Feb 9
Favourite cuisine: Japanese
Favourite dish: Kala chana gravy
Favourite book: The Velveteen Rabbit
Favourite genre: Fiction
Favourite quote: "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
Favourite author: Haruki Murakami
Your philosophy in life: Life's the ultimate sin, a never-ending game that you're expected to win

[Prosenjit]

Birthday (we'll wish you!): jan 19
Favourite cuisine: bangladeshi food
Favourite dish: jheenga biriyani lucknow style...
Favourite book: The Day of The Jackal...
Favourite genre: Crime Fiction/Thrillers
Favourite quote: "Bravery is something that never goes out of fashion"- The Eagle Has Landed
Favourite author: Tough to name a single one...
Your philosophy in life: This too, shall pass :-D

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Birthday (we'll wish you!): 20th March
Favourite cuisine: Indian (less spicy), Italian and Mughlai.
Favourite dish: Spaghetti, Butter chicken and Briyani.
Favourite book: The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka / Woman In A Cages - Vilas Sarang.
Favourite genre: Absurdism, Contemporary literature, Classic Literature.
Favourite quote: "Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me" - George Orwell, 1984.
Favourite author: Orwell, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Nabokov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Aldous Huxley etc
Your philosophy in life: Everything Fight Club book talked about because "In Tyler we trust"

[Saumya]

Birthday (we'll wish you!): 18th October
Favourite cuisine: Japanese, Indian
Favourite dish: Ramen
Favourite book: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)
Favourite genre: Magic Realism, Non-Fiction, Contemporary Literature, POC American Literature, Graphic Novels
Favourite quote: “To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?” - Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Favourite author: don't have one
Your philosophy in life: Change is the only constant

[Rahul]

Birthday (we'll wish you!): 10 April
Favourite cuisine: Indian
Favourite dish: Bhendi masala
Favourite book: Yayati, The monster calls , TFIOS , The Alchemist
Favourite genre: YA,Romance
Favourite quote: what is wrongly settled is never settled and must be resettled
Favourite author: B.R.Ambedkar , V.S.Khandekar
Your philosophy in life: Silence is the best answer.

[Soul longings]

Birthday (we'll wish you!): 18 th March
Favourite cuisine:Indian , Chinese,
Favourite dish: Pizza
Favourite book:The Girl with the dragon tatoo, 7 habits of highly effective people, Bhagvat gita, The professor
Favourite genre:Murder msyteries, Crime Thrillers, Spiritual
Favourite quote:“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
Favourite author:Steig larson, Robert bailey, Surendra mohan pathak, Ac bhaktivedanta Swami
Your philosophy in life: Try to help and spread happiness as much as possible

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[Swati]

Birthday (we'll wish you!): 21st March (just turned 21!)
Favourite cuisine: I don't discriminate; I love all food.
Favourite dish: ...But French fries = life. Also, ice cream.
Favourite book: The Catcher in the Rye
Favourite genre: Contemporary romance
Favourite quote: "In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix must first burn."
Favourite author: Kristan Higgins, JK Rowling, Matthew Quick
Your philosophy in life: Love is the best thing we do.

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[Maniv]

Birthday (we'll wish you!): 10 June
Favourite cuisine: Chettinad, Moghlai, Italian
Favourite dish: Lasagne Verde, Biryani, Dal Bukhara
Favourite book: Kane and Abel
Favourite genre: Mystery, Biography
Favourite quote: Everything that I ever wrote for my brands (I'm a writer you see :))
Favourite author: James Hadley Chase, J. K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, Kalki & Sujatha (Tamil)
Your philosophy in life: Life is an open book. Share it with nice people.

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[Anirud]

Birthday (we'll wish you!): 31 May
Favourite cuisine: Italian, Indian
Favourite dish: Pizzas, Dosa
Favourite book: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Favourite genre: Fiction, Philosophy
Favourite quote: Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Favourite author: Agatha Christie, Khaled Hossini, Mitch Albom, Paulo Coelho
Your philosophy in life: The best in life is yet to come.

[Sagar]

19th October
Indian (Kuchh bhi dedo dhang se banaake)
A well made Margherita (pizza, ofc) and Pav Bhaji (not both in a day)
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger
Autobiographies, Biographies and Real life accounts
"When the student is ready, the teaches appears"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Dawkins
To all the philosophers, don't mistake possibility for probability.

[Caroline]

Wish me on 25th October
Favourite cuisine: Quite a Foodie. Always willing to try new Cuisines!
Favourite dish: Pork Sorpotel
Favourite book:The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Favourite genre: Mystery and thrillers
Favourite quote: “We Repeat what we don’t Repair”
Favourite author: Nicholas Sparks
Your philosophy in life: “Life has no remote….get up and change it yourself!”

[Aquina]

Birthday : 28th January.
Favorite cuisine : North Indian, Mughlai.
Favorite dish : Butter chicken.
Favorite book : Anna Karenina.
Favorite genre : Classics, Romance.
Favorite quote : I love you, most ardently.(Mr. Darcy proposes to Miss Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)
Favorite author : William Shakespeare, Anton Chekov, Oscar Wilde.
Your philosophy in life : Count your blessings and be forever grateful about them. That is the key to true happiness in life.

[Prosenjit]

Just noticed..that I had posted here in 2016 when I was a true blue Bangalorean, however I am a bangalored bong now, with occassional trips to Mumbai...but yes...still part of this group :-)

[Albert]

Born: 23/6 (just after the June solstice)
Cuisine: Peruvian
Dish: Quinoa soup
Fav book: Brothers Karamazov
Genre: narrative/thought on the level of Brothers Karamazov
Current fav quote: "All social and technological advances should be evaluated according to their ability to afford us increasing spiritual activity." (Zapffe)
Fav author: Zhuangzi
Current philosophy: If you can take rejection, you can do anything.