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Quick Facts

 

Shine the torch on me... and dig me up

 

[Values]     [Hates]     [Dreams]     [Stats]      [History]     [Contacting me]

 

 

Values

 

  • Spartan, meaningful, healthy living
  • Honesty
  • Benevolence
  • Innovating constantly
  • Cleanliness
  • Sundry wit and sunny humor
  • Practicing ‘live and let live’
  • Financial prudence
  • And as with all values trying to stand by them

 

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Hates

 

  • Boundaries both real and imagined
  • Jaded attitudes
  • Injustices ranging from the trivial to the fundamental
  • Apple-polishing, servility
  • Loud behavior
  • Indiscipline on the roads, airports, trains... in life
  • Slapstick, farcical, mocking humor

 

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Dreams

 

  • Utopia, the Garden of Eden (does such a thing exist?)
  • Since the above does not exist – well I haven’t experienced it yet – I do dream of striking the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow helping me fulfill my assorted pursuits
  • Pen down a book (an autobiography, perhaps)

 

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Stats

 

  • Male
  • Head to Toe: 172 cms
  • Tone: Copper with varying shades
  • Structure: Lithe, lean and athletic
  • Tongues: English, Hindi, Marathi, French

 

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History

 

  • Breathing since October 24, 1972

 

  • Aware since 1979... my earliest memories are of my Chembur home with a wild garden in front and myself building mud homes using the moist soil out there. Others include the annual trip to my native-place in rural Maharashtra to meet country cousins and warm grandparents.

 

 

  • Various names... curiously all of them begin with B
    • Bart (my post-graduate college nick)
    • Bambai (my graduate college nick)
    • Bantoo (my home name... though on reaching the teens this name has slipped into oblivion)

 

  • Ethnicity (if you must really know): Singular racial origin from the Leva Patil Maharashtrian Hindu stock (originally from Gujarat)

 

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Contacting me

 

  • Dwelling in Mumbai, after a long hiatus which took me to various places in India

 

  • Dear friends (long-lost and not-yet-lost)
    • Please do get in touch with me via email or phone. In case your plans bring you to this part of the world, you must visit me.

 

  • All others
    • I respect privacy and expect the same in return. Hence if you think you genuinely need to contact me for any reason (broken links, feedback, or just reaching out to me) you may do so by emailing me here.

 

  • In case you use PGP, my PGP key is here (well, I still don’t have it!)

 

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