a keen interest in other cultures having traveled over 50 countries; a love for nature, history, literature, music, dance, art, theatre, movies and learning languages.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To learn about other cultures more intimately through shared experiences with locals, and to offer the same to foreigners in my country/ country of residence.

Interests

• arts
• culture
• reading
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• backpacking
• history
• reading books
• historical places
• classical dance

Music, Movies, and Books

Love music, movies and books across genres so not sure where to start - listing top of the mind 3 or 4 in each category I ve loved.

Books/ authors - Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Antoine de st exupery, Camus, Herman Hesse, Nikos kanzantzakis, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Rabindranath Tagore, Amitav Ghosh.

Music - Jazz, Classical music;
classic rock - Queen, Beatles, The who, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Dylan, Leonard cohen; Simon and Garfunkel.
Popular music - Adele, Enya, Lorena mckennitt, Coldplay.

Movies - love world cinema across countries - favourite directors are the usual suspects - kurusowa, Bergman, Majid Majidi, Fellini, Bertolucci, Truffaut, Pedro almodovar, Zhang Yimou, Satyajit Ray et al.

English movies - David Lean, Alexander Korda, merchant ivory productions, George Cukor, Scorcese, Coen brothers, Christopher Nolan, Spielberg, Tarantino, Wes anderson, Charlie Chaplin et al.

some lesser known gems that I ve loved - French - Blame it on Fidel;

Popular mainstream - love a well-done rom com like “you’ve got mail”, the devil wears Prada/ or fantasy like Lord of the rings/ or action like western/ Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns/ lock stock & 2 smoking barrels/ Layer cake

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Every day is amazing!

Teach, Learn, Share

Travel stories, cultural exchange, languages - English/ french (4 indian languages if interested)

What I Can Share with Hosts

A warm heart, interesting conversation, guidance on travel in Europe and Asia (particularly India), home made food when possible.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Switzerland