Conventional, boring, believer, poet, Shayar (to be precise), lover of music, musical instruments, and all that can be called music (theoretically or metaphorically), jack of all master of none, more of a reader less of a writer, arbit philosopher, foolish debater.. and many more such things.. like so many people!
Education : A few schools of Raebareilly (UP), Bhopal (MP) and Ranchi (Bihar/Jharkhand) in India. Bulk of which is DAV Shyamli (Ranchi) and K.V. Hinoo (Ranchi).
College degree in Economics from ARSD college, University of Delhi.
MBA from IIM Bangalore in 2003
Work : Arbit stuff at TCS for 16 months, Analytics was last 10 months out of that (supposedly). Oct-04 till date —— Analytics is my forte! Worked with Inductis. Moved to Diamond Management & Technology Consultants (Diamond Cluster, formerly) in Jan-07
Blog-ex : Have been blogging at http://pilots-and-zealots.blogspot.com , http://whatticksinanalytics.blogspot.com and www.diamondinfoanalytics.com intermittently. Try to be regular. But it ain’t coming easy to me!
Pass time – Reading.. Reading.. Playing Guitar (a bit).. and watching Animation (Naruto and Avatar Aang- The Last Airbender .. they rock!)
Hi Amit !!
Nice blog. Keep it up.
Thanks.
Thanks so much for the English translation of Gul Huyi Jaati Hai. I fell in love with this gazal melody of all of many in a two-CD set. Now knowing the words … it’s even better.
Thanks dimitra
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Got your translation on Faiz’s nazm. specially liked ‘Gul huyi jati he’. I am not much in Urdu poetry, but really like Faiz. And it helps when you make it easier for me to enjoy his stuff. Wonderful blog. Keep it up. And hope you post more of Faiz. I see last two are in 2007. so probably you may think of posting few more now. Cheers!
@Shruti – Thanks! Sure.. sure.. Will try and do more!
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Hey Amit
I just stumbled on to your blog meaning to look for a ghazal from Faiz by Abida..and I got hooked…
Is there any feature when I get to know when you have written anything new related to poetry, music??
Keep up the good work..
Mithu
and by the way haveyou done nything on hum ne sab sher mein saware thay??
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