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Delights
Some of my great delights in life, including but not limited to fiction and non-fiction books, music, graphic novels, manga, movies, TV shows and more.
Fiction Books
- The old man and the sea - Book by Ernest Hemingway
- Metamorphosis - Book by Franz Kafka
- The stranger - Book by Albert Camus
- A single man - Book by Christopher Isherwood
- Spirits Rebellious - Book by Kahlil Gibran
- Norwegian Wood - Book by Haruki Murakami
- Time stops at Shamli - Book by Ruskin Bond
- The Last Night of the Earth Poems - Book by Charles Bukowski
- There is so much many to mention, that I will run out of space. Some other names include Emily Dickinson, Khaled Hosseini, etc.
Non-Fiction Books
- Emotional Intelligence - Book by Daniel Goleman
- The 12 Rules for Life - Book by Jordan Peterson
- Sapiens - Book by Yuval Noah Harari
- Hiroshima - Book by John Hersey
- Man’s Search for Meaning - Book by Viktor Frankl
- And a lot of academic non-fiction from rocket science to mathematics to artificial intelligence.
Music
- 10,000 days - Album by Tool
- Drive home - Song by Steven Wilson
- Autumn Leaves - by Yenne Lee
- Echoes - Song by Pink Floyd
- Where is my mind - Song by Pixies
- Husna - Song by Piyush Mishra
- Watch Over You - Song by Alter Bridge
- Bright lights - Song by Gary Clark Jr
- There is a fine line between Moonlight sonata and Rosetta Stoned, and I tread carefully somewhere in there.
Movies
- Secret in Their Eyes - Directed by Billy Ray
- Ship of Theseus - Directed by Anand Gandhi
- The Pianist - Directed by Roman Polanski
- Masaan - Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan
- The Truman Show - Directed by Peter Weir
- Being John Malkovich - Directed by Spike Jonze
- The Death of Stalin - Directed by Armando Iannucci
- There is no horror in my indulgences. A honorary mention here would be George Carlin.
Graphic novels and Manga
- Bakuman - Written by Tsugumi Ohba
- March Comes In like a Lion - written by by Chica Umino
- Attack on titans - Written by Hajime Isayama
- Spice and wolf - Written by Isuna Hasekura
- Your lie in April - Written by Naoshi Arakawa
- Berserk - Written by Kentaro Miura
- Koi Kaze - Written by Motoi Yoshida
- There is always more to read. I guess.
Anime
- Grave of fireflies - Directed by Isao Takahata
- Neon genesis evangelion - Directed by Hideaki Anno
- Metropolis - Directed by Rintaro
- In this corner of the world - Directed by Sunao Katabuchi
- Patema inverted - Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura
- Liz and the bluebird - Directed by Naoko Yamada
- A silent Voice - Directed by Naoko Yamada
- The great passage - Directed by Shion Miura
- Have been life-long admirer of Studio ghibli, Hayao miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, etc. Others include classics like Naruto, Death note, Code geass etc