Kishan Thomas

This is what I wrote down years back when I was single and free. Now with a family, I am finding less and less time for myself and my hobbies

I will try to put up more info about me as time permits, till then here is my Resume You can also finger my .plan , which lists my PGP KEY as well.

My interests - Technology, LINUX/UNIX, C/C++/Java/Python/PHP/MySQL, Photography

Music - Anything other than the sugary manufactured radio POP
Rage Against The Machine, Los Lobos, Moby, Talvin Singh, Led Zeppelin, Chemical Brothers, Guns N Roses, Eagles, Pink Floyd, Nine Inch Nails, Paul Oakenfold, Nusret Fateh Ali Khan,DJ Cheb-i-Sabbah Jimi Hendrix, Doors, U2, Kula Shekhar , Latin Playboys, AR Rahaman .... to name a few .

Lately I am into the drum n' bass / ambient / breaks scene, with special liking for the so called Asian Underground or 'Brasian' ( British Asian ) crew like Talvin Singh . Asian Dub Foundation . joi . State of Bengal . Nitin Swahney . Badmarsh+Shri and Karsh Kale + Midival Punditz of Asian Massive


Recommends :
Talvin Singh - OK
Cheb-i-Sabbah - Krishna Lila
Asian Dub Foundation - Community Music
R.A.T.M - Battle of L.A


Movies - All kind of movies including Matrix, Pulp Fiction , Godfather, Benhur, Casino, Monster's Ball, Lord of the Rings, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1996), Crow, Indiana Jones 8MM, Traffic, Star Wars, Terminator, 12 Monkeys, se7en , FightClub, Gladiator, Usual Suspects, Jaws, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Heat, Ghost in the Shell, Spirited Away, Grave of the Butterflies and a lot of good Indian movies

Books - Mostly Technical Books with a bit of fiction of the kind of Frederick Forsyth, Steinbeck, William Gibson, Ayn Rand, Leon Uris, Neal Stephenson, Dougals Adams, Bruce Sterling along with many good Indian authors.

Reccoments :
John Steinbeck Cannery Row
Simon Singh Fermat's Last Theorem
Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
JRR Tolkien's fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings.

Sports - Not much of a big sports fan still loved/loves Ayorton Senna, Steffi Graf, Schumacher, Agassi, 49ers, Sachin Tendulkar, Vishvanathan Anand, Kobe Bryant and Lakers.

"When reality grows older, dreams die young " | Kishan Thomas kishan at hackorama dot com