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Aquarius
Quite emotional at rock-bottom. An intuition-driven personality, which has always worked. Immense capacity to bottle-up mood-swings.
Anyone that I know pretty well, deserting me, without rhyme or reason.
My personable demeanor.
A train journey where I found a companion for the rest of my journey called ‘Life’.
A spurned love burnt my soul for ever, when I couldn’t pursue ‘cricket’ as a career.
Jim Carrey (as an actor and the character roles he plays!)
Phantom (The ghost who walks!).
Sher Khan (The ‘Tiger’ in Jungle Book!)
John Grisham, Arthur Hailey, Tom Clancy, Erich Segal, Mark, Tully, RK Narayan
90 minutes at Entebbe, Final Diagnosis, Doctors, The Hunt for Red October, No full-stops in India.
Final Diagnosis
To Sir with Love, Crimson Tide, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Karate Kid, The Jungle Book
To instantly know what someone perceives of me when I meet them up for the first time.
He came. He weathered. He ‘conquered’ the world around him.
Maternal ancestral home during my childhood. In the priceless company of my cousins, during my adolescence. In the company of my better-half. The silver years will be dedicated all to myself, exploring people and places.
Playing drums.
The Hunt for Red October
I have a tendency to pen down my stories during wee hours of the morning at home, in-flight, in train and frame my stories during my routine morning runs, washroom, public places etc.
Music
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
I have to compulsorily include some bit of my personal experience into my stories – either a character or a situation or both.
Tinkle.
If personality is unique, so is any writer.
Commander R Upendra Babu is a Commissioned Officer in the Indian Navy, commissioned into the Engineering Branch in 1993. He is an alumnus of the Indian Naval Academy. Having graduated from the Naval College of Engineering, INS Shivaji, Lonavla (under the aegis of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi) with a B.Tech (Mech), he completed his Post Graduation in M.E (Mech/Marine) from the Institute of Armament Technology (IAT), Pune, conferred by Pune University.
He underwent further specialised training to be inducted into the Submarine Arm of the Indian Navy. He has held various appointments such as Operational, Staff and Training. He is presently appointed at the Naval Selection Board, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu).
The author, hailing from Kerala, has undergone the major part of his education in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He is an alumnus of Kendriya Vidyalayas Malleswaram, ASC and Jalahalli. He is also the alumnus of BEL College and MES College of Arts, Commerce and Science.
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