Books
Scorpio
I can watch Govinda movies back to back. I'm rebuilding my childhood comic book collection. I love Madhubani painting.
Loss of loved ones.
Finishing my first book.
Birth of my son.
Deaths during Covid in family and friends.
Kapil Dev
Phantom from Phantom comic series by Lee Falk
Gabbar Singh from Sholay
P G Wodehouse, R K Narayan, Premchand
Roots by Alex Haley, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Malgudi Days by R K Narayan, Love Story by Erich Segal
Many from my comic book collection
Godfather, Swades, The Intern, Billu, Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Reading Minds
Father. Husband. Son. Brother. Friend.
Childhood - Maybe just where I grew up. Adolescent - 1950s in India. Adult Life - Harappa / Mohenjodaro during Indus Valley Civilisation. Silver Years - Maybe a Buddhist monastery two thousand years back.
Playing an instrument
Malgudi Days
Mostly weekends at home
Silence
This too shall pass.
Fortunately none.
R L Laxman's cartoons.
Write for yourself.
Nilotpal has been working in the Indian IT industry for more than 25 years and is currently employed as Director, Sales with a large IT MNC.
Brought up in Dhanbad, he completed his schooling from De Nobili School, where he was awarded the ‘Most Representative Student Award’ for the outgoing batch. He received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. Subsequently, he obtained PGCBM from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
His last novel ‘Everything and Nothing’, a pre-partition Bengal saga, was widely appreciated and was mentioned amongst ‘Top Ten Books of the week’ and rated by a reviewer as one of the 28 books that stood out in 2020.
Nilotpal lives in Bangalore.
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