I'm not sure what I expect out of OKCupid. What I am sure about is what I DO NOT EXPECT and that is rudeness, disrespect, and most offensive of all - solicitation.

Besides that? I'm 28 right now, have a Masters degree which I did jack with. I'm educated as a critic and literatteur, skilled in writerly attributes and I take those very seriously.

I have many and varied interests. I am a cynic. My medium of communication is sarcasm which tries to be amusing, but sometimes fails to be so.

And oh yeah, please, do not call me "dear" or "honey" or "sweetheart" or any variants of the same. I have not given you the right and believe me, to most women these terms are offensive.

Living it despite INCREDIBLE odds.

Words. Insults and profanities. Rhetoric. Driving in Delhi traffic. Languages. Being opinionated. Procrastinating. Being a drama queen. Sleeping. Drowning in self-pity. Losing my temper. Getting irritated. Did I mention being a drama queen?

Either my build (because the width is not in keeping with the height) or how I move through life with my nose and instep high in the air.

Loads. Comics to classics. A Capella to Heavy metal. Caviar on crackers to rice and pickles.

You want details?

READING
My favourite comic series is Asterix. Followed by Tintin (quel surprise!). My favourite comic character is Reggie Mantle, shut up. My favourite English writers are Terry Pratchett, PG Wodehouse, Enid Blyton (yes. shut up.), Joan Townsend, Mark Haddon, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Salman Rushdie, George Bernard Shaw, Christopher Marlowe, George Etherege, Devdutt Patnaik, William Congreve, Tennessee Williams, Ismat Chughtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, Richard Sheridan, Palash Krishna Mehrotra, Robert Graves, and oh, I could go on. Non-English writers? Ved Vyaas leads the pack! And then Homer, Isabel Allende, Elif Shafak, Petronius, Josef Konrad, Orhan Pamuk, Plautus, Henrik Ibsen, Anais Nin, Bertolt Brecht, Euripides, Sophocles, Gabriel Marquez, and.. brrrrr... many more.

I adore poetry.

MOVIES
Anything well-made in terms of theme(s) or technical qualities or acting, sub-text et cetera... what can invite me to engage with it.

Some of my favourites: Omkara, Tropic Thunder, Star Wars, Matrix, The Mummy (the Brendan Fraser starrer), Munich, Dom Za Vešanje, Archangel, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Blood Diamond, Namakhalal, Padosan, Welcome, Chupke Chupke, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron and similar comedies, Pushpak, Shootout at Lokhandwala... I know, my favourites don't quite reflect the kind of films I like, but I've rarely seen those kinds..

MUSIC
My favourite classical composer is Franz Liszt. Modern composer? John Williams and A R Rahman and, all right, Atif Aslam although he cannot sing to save his life. Also, Goran Bregovic is GOD.

My favourite band? The Beatles. Marilyn Manson. Type O Negative and Barenaked Ladies. Weezer. Boney M.

Singers? Kailash Kher. Imogen Heap. Edith Piaf. Madonna. Vera Lynne. Frank Sinatra. Kishore Kumar. Britney Spears. Iqbal Bano. Bhimsen Joshi. Hariharan. Okay, even Katy Perry.

FOOD
Detailing dishes is a thankless task. I'll stick with foods and cuisines. I enjoy the following:

Cuisines: Indian (everything, except the uber-sweet Gujarati fare), and the spicier the better. Mexican. Indo-chinese and Schezhuan. Greek. Middle-Eastern (from Irani to Israeli), Pacific North-Western. Sushi (non-fried, please!) and junk food.

Foods: Kababs. Achaars and chutneys. Pulaos, pilafs, paellas... all rice dishes. Yoghurt. Ice creams. Prawns and shrimps. Veal, pork, mutton (minced), fish (salmon, halibut, hilsa, sole, snapper, sturgeon).

My comforts. Something to read. A computer filled with games I love. An admiring and laughing audience. Ice cream. A sense of history.

Ah me, ah me, ah mine, ah me.

And plots for stories I am supposed to write. And things I should do but never do. And personal goals I set and never fulfil. And idiots I'd love to do violence to. And how badly newspapers present news these days, as do TV channels - no sense of presentation, perspective or priority! And religion. Because that's as much fun as it is mockable.

At home with my family. That's usually because there's little else to do.

I've a V on my forehead which stands for my surname.

You understood the spirit in which all this information was shared.