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He loved life. He watched and wrote about films, admired Sivaji Ganesan and Ingmar Bergman. He recited poetry - Bharati's as well as Iqbal's, Dickinson as well as Neruda. He sang songs: songs of passion by Kannadasan, and ones of romance by Mohammad Rafi and Talat Mehmud. He spoke several languages; he understood the proletarian as well as the plebian. Everything interested him: good food, great art and literature, Sufi music, the Great Wall of China as well as the Redwood forest, and of course, cricket.