HOBBIES
Advaniji’s love for Books, Films and Cricket.
“My lifelong love for books began in college and I read all the novels of Jules Verne, the famous nineteenth century French science fiction writer, including Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, and others. These novels were quite prescient and accurate in describing technological inventions that materialised many decades later. For example, Paris in the 20th Century talked about air conditioning, television, etc., which were nonexistent in Verne’s time. Similarly, the description in the novel From the Earth to the Moon-three astronauts launching into space from Florida and returning to the earth by landing on the ocean-now seems almost like a preview of the voyage of Apollo 11 in 1969. It was also in my college library that I read all the novels of Charles Dickens and Alexander Dumas and some other classics by European and American writers. I was particularly impressed by Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. Quite a few of the novels that I had read then were subsequently made into films, and I would never miss an opportunity to watch them in my later years. My other love in school was cricket. I was not an extraordinary player, but I was an avid listener of A.F.S. Taleyarkhan’s radio commentary of Test cricket, Ranji Trophy and the highly popular Bombay Pentangular matches,played among the five teams of Hindus, Muslims, Parsis, Europeans and the rest. Taleyarkhan’s was a legendary voice on radio, and, like many cricket fans, I too was as interested in his style of commentary as in the match. I used to frequently entertain my friends by mimicking his description and analysis of the game. I remember that the only time I bunked school was when, instead of only listening to the radio commentary, I was able to watch the five-day Ranji Trophy final in Karachi between the teams of Sindh and Maharashtra.”
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