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Name: Shashank Ramaprasad
DOB: 24 May
Sun sign: Gemini
Native to: Bangalore, India.

My Name:

The word Shashank, like most Indian names, has a Sanskrit origin. Literally, it means... the one whose mark is the rabbit. Please don't get me wrong -- I have no rabbit mark anywhere on me. For those of you who are still wondering what in the world that means, Shashank simply means the moon. If you look at the full moon with your imaginative eyes wide open, you will see what I mean...

Interests:

I love reading books - my favorite genres are fantasy, sci-fi, horror, sex (of course!). In BITS, I had a chance to lay my hands on some very good collections of books. Among the fiction-authors I have read are Salman Rushdie, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jeffrey Archer, Michael Crichton, Agatha Christie etc. I read Asimov, Douglas Adams, H. G. Wells for Sci-fi. Some books I enjoyed reading in the past are:
(In order of recollection)
The Earthsea Quartet Ursula le Guin
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
Kama Sutra an electronic version
I, Robot Isaac Asimov
Dune Frank Herbert
The Discworld Series Terry Pratchett
Lolita Vladimir Nabakov


My musical dispositions are towards Floyd, Led Zep, U2, Joe Sat etc. I enjoy watching movies and reading books. I play computer games. My favorites are Half-Life, Age of Empires, SimCity, Quake3 etc. Sometime ago, I used to sketch and paint.

These are some songs I have really liked:
The End The Doors
Always the last to know del Amitri
Something The Beatles
The ground beneath her feet U2
Romeo and Juliet Dire Straits
Take away my pain Dream Theater
Stairway to heaven led Zeppelin
More than words Extreme
(I'll get by...) With a little help from my friends Ringo Starr
Kashmir led Zeppelin
Thunderstruck Ac/Dc
Coming back to life Pink Floyd
Hero of the day Metallica
Jealous guy John Lennon
(... the list will go on, if I don't stop here!)

I have also been actively involved in theater, though if you ask my BITSian friends, they will either tell you that I am a hopeless actor, or that I am a veteran cross-dresser. Know more about my exploits as an actor.



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