Rajasekar KS

Leo

"As a University Topper I was a special invitee of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for the Republic Day parade and a state guest for 7 days, I was one of the first internet users in Chennai and had for my browsing partner the late President Venkataraman, I was fortunate to meet boxing legend Muhammad Ali when I interned at Indian Express while doing my masters in Mass Communication at Madras University "

Of course, it has to be vertigo. But I tried to conquer it by taking volunteering rappelling from a high rock many years ago

The first rejection slip from a newspaper Editor back while I was at school. That set in me the determination that made do more than 200 articles in national newspapers.

Getting married and being blessed with two loving daughters.

My mother's demise due to cancer.

Sachin Tendulkar and Roger Federer

Gulliver

Hard to pick but I loved RK Narayanan, Somerset Maugham and Shakespeare.

Autobiography of a Yogi, Mahatma Gandhi's My Experiments with Truth, 10 commandments by Deepak Chopra, Tribes by Seth Godin, Ramayan and Mahabharat

Chandamama

Bahubali, Nayakan, Gandhi

The power to make people see the good side of others first.

Here’s a man who truly celebrated life every day.

India for my childhood, our myriad cultures, states and art forms charm me, some sea side place for adolescence, South India for adult life, a village retreat for silver years.

I’m a bathroom singer, would love to have acquired a great voice.

The Book of Lists by Irwing Wallace.

Mostly in the mornings after breakfast. Sometimes at home, other times while on an Uber.

Silence and music connect you to your soul and to nature.

Be Good. Do Good.

I write when I have an idea, then put it away and revisit a day later for an objective read.

If you feel guilty, then you shouldn’t do it. If you’re doing it, you shouldn’t feel guilty.

Just write. Don’t think who’s going to read it. Just remember, JK Rowling was rejected by many publishers who thought no one would read Harry Potter.