Date:         Fri, 23 Jan 1998 03:23:32 +0500
From: Rajat Poddar <rkpoddar@AD1.VSNL.NET.IN>
Subject:      Fill: Bio: Rajat Poddar

First Name       : Rajat
Middle Honorific : Kumar (identifies me as a male)
Surname          : Poddar

E-mail Address   : rkpoddar@ad1.vsnl.net.in
Domicile         : Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Age              : 42
Occupation       : Businessman (not for long)

Interests        : History, Photography, Scotch
More Interests   : Politics, Computers, Cognac
Passions         : Reading, Beer
Addictions       : Opinions (mine AND others'), Smoking

Ambition         : Author and/or Editor (in alphabetic order)
Desire           : Peace ... Tranquility

Love             : Exploring
Hate             : Mammon

Favoured Authors : Too many to list here.
Recent Favourites: Jostein Gaarder, Paul Theroux, Toni Morrison
                   (in alphabetic order)

Recently Read    : Douglas Adams: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
                 : Upamanyu Chatterjee: English, August
Currently Reading: Vikram Chandra: Love and Longing in Bombay
                 : Francis Fukuyama: Trust
                 : Theodore Zeldin: An Intimate History of Humanity
Proposed Next    : Toni Morrison: Beloved
(in no parti-    : Octavio Paz: In Light of India
 cular order )   : Rohinton Mistry: Such A Long Journey
                 : Paul Theroux: My Other Life
                 : (Several collections of short stories)

I have been writing for about two months now. Short stories.
Am currently participating in a Writer's Workshop on the I-Net.
Obviously I have not published anything ... as yet.

Having read Mr. Barker's various FAQs (well, some of them) I would
like to read and be read, to critique and to be criticised.

Cheers!

Rajat
rkpoddar@ad1.vsnl.net.in