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Overview

  • 20 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hindi; learning French
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, The Ohio State University
  • Ph.D. (2015) UPMC Sorbonne universités & ENS, Paris
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About Me

Plant 🌱 based lifestyle

Social profile:
IG: https://instagram.com/rudynpgram

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My CS experience so far has been quite wonderful. Currently I can host only ONE person at a time in my studio with a view of Eiffel Tower from my window :)

A nice article, if you are looking for host in Paris, make note of a few things:
http://www.timeout.fr/paris/spectacle/humour/30-facons-denerver-un-parisien

Interests

  • fashion
  • photography
  • environment
  • cooking
  • wine
  • fine dining
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • movies
  • socializing
  • music
  • live music
  • jazz
  • opera
  • art history
  • history
  • volunteering
  • cinema
  • nature
  • learning languages
  • dining out
  • museums
  • kickboxing
  • live concerts
  • art exhibitions

Music, Movies, and Books

Few of my favorites (not the extend list)

Novels:
I'm a part of all that have read 📚
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Quantum Ten by Sheilla Jones
Paris in the twentieth century by Jules Verne
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Perfume: The story of a murderer by Patrick Süskind
What is life by Erwin Schrödinger
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox

TV shows:
Da Vinci's Demons, Dracula NBC, The Borgias, Hannibal, Penny Dreadful, Game of Thrones, True Detective, 2 broke girls, Outlander, The Knick, Suits, Masters of Sex, Mozart in the jungle, Daredevil, The Strain, House of Cards, Gotham, Houdini, Mozart in the jungle, TED talks.

Music:
* If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal 💖
I always search for "Magnum Opus" which can evoke all possible human emotions. I listen to all genres in a quest for this but more inclined to classical and renaissance music.

Classical music composers: Bach, Brahms, Sibelius, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Isaac Albéniz, Arvo Pärt, Antonín Dvořák, Debussy, Liszt, Vivaldi, Chopin, Carl Orff etc.
Conductors: Herbert von Karajan, Paavo Järvi , André Previn, Simon Rattle, John Eliot Gardiner, Riccardo Mutti.

Contemporary music composers: Ludovico Einaudi, André Rieu, Hans Zimmer, Bear McCreary, Yanni...

EMINEM in hip hop and Daddy Yankee in reggaeton, LP in rock.

Others: Khatia Buniatishvili, Johnny Cash, Ophélie Gaillard, Renaud Capuçon, Edgar Moreau, Lindsey Stirling, 2Cellos, The Piano Guys, Hillary Hahn, David Garett, Anoushka Shankar...

Movies:
Interstellar, Inception, Einstein and Eddington, Copenhagen, The Andromeda Strain, Upside Down, The Illusionist, The Prestige, Stardust, City of angels, Limitless, October Sky, The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons. The Day after tomorrow, Armageddon, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, Instinct, The Great Debate, Rush, Midnight in Paris, Paris je t'aime etc.

Sports:
Kickboxing, Cricket, Volleyball, Badminton

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, India, Italy, United Kingdom, United States

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