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Yaeer

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About Me

Here are some of my writings:

The Indian Outsider
"Born in a dusty hospital amidst roaring Bombay traffic, I would never have imagined my life would turn into a version of Russian Roulette."
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The Mahim Fort
"If you grew up in Bombay like me, you are familiar with the Mahim fort. You would have wandered around the cobblestones and played hide-and-seek among those curved pathways and narrow hallways."
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Guard Duty
"Have you ever gazed at a mountain in the night? A thin hazy line divides the sky and the rocky hillside. The darker side is land. But this blurs when trees smudge the colours together creating a mediatory that the human eye has difficulty catching."
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My Interests

Music:

Ghazals, Bhangra, Sitar, Santor, Tabla, Classical Indian Music like Ravi Shankar and Hariprasad Chaurasia, Jim Reeves, Bollywood songs, blues, country, Hebrew pop, Hebrew Oriental such as Zohar Argov, Western Classical especially Bethoven and Opera.

Television:

Seinfeld, Sopranos, Monk, Midsomer Murders.

Books:

Favourite Authors:
Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Rohinton Mistry, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, Khushwant Singh, R.K. Narayan, Vikram Seth, Bharati Mukherjee, Steven King