social science, scarves, hating liberal (particularly white ones), travel, urdu, qawaalis, hip-hop, fine food and drink, cashmere, class insecurity, things that are common between long aimless moutain drives, afternoon trips to bila hora and late night auto rides.
Don't think cool people in Delhi will be met on Myspace (they're all on facebook)...
hip-hop, bollywood, rai/arabic, fusion, classical (indian and western), the genre is immaterial as long as its catchy.
Battle of Algiers, Shantranj Ke Khilari, Hum Tum, Zoolander, Waiting for Guffman, Party Girl, The Third Man, Mughal-e-Azam
Sopranos (they are real people, i swear, ive been outside their house), Six Feet Under, Entourage (are you getting a sense of my favourite network?), The Family Guy, good reality TV like the Apprentice and Project Runway and horrible MTV reality shows that make fun of stupid rich people like My Super Sweet 16
Too goddamn many to name. Shame, Midnights Children (though my enchantment with Rushdie is turning into a bad morning hangover), Ali and Nino, From this Earth of Mankind, Season of Migration to the North, Khobs Al-Haafi, Mahabaratha, Tolstoy (particularly Divine and Human), Kundera (odd that i began to like him only three years after leaving Prague), Nietzsche, Marx, Durkheim, Burke, Chatterjee, Foucault, Bordieu. Poets like Ibn Al-Rumi, Mirza Ghalib and Mohammad Iqbal.