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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Bengali, Bangla, English; learning Arabic, Hindi, Spanish
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • procrastinating
  • eternal student...now doing postgrad
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to travel and pile up wonderful memories to die with...

ABOUT ME

person with many shades....can be sober and the next minute be crazy and eccentric....can't cook to save my life....love anything to do with the arts and science....not interested in anything to do with business/commerce....hate religion...extremely untidy...spontaneous....with a dash of humor....

PHILOSOPHY

"Do unto others as u wish to be done unto you"

"I am not fighting for you...we are fighting together"

"my karma ran over your dogma"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

unfortunately no one can tell u how i participate....u have to see it for urself when i do (that's right, from the Matrix)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i am new and i want to surf couches :P yay yay!!!

Interests

politics, art, literature, biology, astronomy, music, theatre, films....the list is endless

  • arts
  • literature
  • singing
  • cooking
  • politics
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • astronomy
  • biology
  • business
  • religion
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

Books by Oriana Fallaci, Janet Fitch, Tolstoy, Gogol, Moliere, Dostoevsky, Camus, Satyajit Ray, Md. Zafar Iqbal.....also Douglas Adams!
Music: Western Classical (Bach, Chopin, Mozart), Hindustani Classical (Ustad Rashid Khan, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Kishori Amonkar and many others), Ghazal (Mehedi Hassan, Jagjit Singh, Abida Parveen), Hindi music by A.R. Rahman, Gulzar and Vishal Bhardwaj, Folk and modern bengali music of different kinds....also Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Donovan, The Doors, Cake, Tom McRae, Townes Van Zandt, John Denver, The Beatles, Norah Jones, Ray Charles...I love folk and traditional music from any part of the world.....
Films by Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Tareq Masud, David Lynch, Samira Makhmalbaf, Vishal Bhardwaj, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Walter Salles, Kieslowski, Godard, Truffaut, Ernst Lubitsch, Tom Tykwer, Fateh Akin, Nadine Labaki....amd so many others...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Flew over the Mount Everest....
Went to a mountainous area (with disguised identity) where i wasn't allowed as a foreigner....
Been dumped five times by the same lover :P
Mistakenly entered a male public toilet at an airport and came out screaming...
Have lived through curfews and bombings and political tensions in my home country...
Been questioned and harassed by intelligence branch once for being friends with a group of activists in a country other than my own....
and many more u will know when u meet me....

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Bengali...I can sing for you...am a gourmet and a lover of different arts, so i can share my knowledge on that....I am also willing to share my secrets (but can't guarantee if they would be interesting enough)....I want to learn anything and everything....except cooking maybe (i can only eat :P)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, England, France, India, Italy, Nepal, Scotland, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Bangladesh, India, United Kingdom

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