Books
Sagittarius
To die an anonymous death
In fact two. My first job in Australia and my second book ‘Musings of Desire’.
When I published my first book under Leadstart banner.
When my family was under severe financial crises.
Infosys' co-founder NRN Murthy.
Howard Roark
The Joker from Batman played by Heath Ledger.
Ernest Hemingway, William Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore, Malcom Gladwell, APJ Abdul Kalam, and Mark Twain.
Leaves of Grass, A brief history of Time, An Idealistic View of life, Fountain Head and The Bhagwad Geeta.
There are plenty and I do reread them often like poetry collections by Sarah Teasdale and Emily Dickinson.
A Beautiful Mind, Shwashank Redemption, Anand, Saving Private Ryan, Before Sunset.
To finish reading a book by just looking at it.
The greatest poet of the common man.
I would love to visit my old school of childhood. For adolescent, nothing in particular. For adult life, one would be the St. Kilda Beach in Australia. There are a few people in my life with whom I wish I should have spent much more time than I did. But sadly, now I can’t.
To master the art of playing Tabla.
There are plenty of them (in both prose and poetry) I am so deeply envious about. A few of them are ‘The Prophet’, ‘An Idealistic View of Life’, ‘Tinkers’, ‘The Black Swan’, ‘Sonnets by Shakespeare’.
Everywhere, anytime
Silence
I don’t use it very often but one of my favourite phrase is ‘Diamond in the rough’. Someday, I want people to use it for me. Like a real Aladdin from Vrindavan. It is so simple, yet it condenses a truth that good people are necessarily moulded more by adversities than by their choices of comfort.
Yes. I always read a poem (on poets.org on Kavitakosh etc) to get me started.
I haven’t read anything that I am guilty of. All reading is a pleasure to me.
From my little wisdom, I always advice writers to first get an absolute understanding and a clarity of purpose of writing in your heart. It is more important than the nuances of the writing discipline. If you haven’t figured out why you want to write, what is that you are so desperate to talk about and why you cannot be at peace if you don’t write about it, then it will be very difficult for you to produce artistic sensibilities characteristic of any good work. Merely having a story or the normal appetite to be an author will not be fruitful in the long run. There has to be a passion in the blood.
Amit Radha Krishna Nigam, 27, works as a software engineer with Infosys in Sydney and has been writing poetry for the last 12 years. A few of his favourite poetry includes collections of Tagore, Mira, Sara Teasdale, Gulzar, Ghalib, Translations of Eugenio Montale poems and others, Shakespeare Sonnets, Blake, RWE, Kipling, AB Vajpayee, Ramakrishna and many other contemporary Indian poets and philosophers of Hindi, Urdu and English. Besides poetry, he also writes short stories and general articles on computer research, economic and other subjects of social importance. His first collection appeared in an e-book selling at lulu.com titled "Awake Wonder and Lost". He has been a runner up at Writing Knights International poetry event (Ohio US) for his poem "The pure pains". His current writing includes a semi-fiction collection of stories from his home town Vrindavan (India) and a nonfiction work based on the teachings of Ancient Indian scriptures. Amit’s articles can be found mainly at scribd.com/imaginovationz.
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