During the long period of my life I developed many interests, but now I have only some left. Some are professional interests and some are hobbies. One must develop some kind of interests and hobbies in his life. They are good creative work in young age, and pastime in old age. And any one of them may be converted into a business at any time, if need be, you never know.

Interests:

• To prepare bibliographies, journal indexes, Reading lists. I still compile them on request for researchers.
• Trying to learn new things in computers, thus I have learnt a lot about them and the result is that I am good at constructing, maintaining databases using MS Access. I am proficient in using MS Word and MS Excel. I build Web Sites. In the same spirit I learnt XML too.
• I do database construction, administration and reporting for some small companies.

Hobbies:

• Embroidery,
• Knitting,
• Reading religious books,
• Listening Indian religious music, and sometimes Gazals, and Noor Jehan, Suraiyaa, Talat Mehmood, and of course Pankaj Udhas
• Watching TV and Hindi and English language movies

Library Jokes

A man went to a library and asked the librarian to give him a book on Suicide.
The Librarian asked - "What will you do of the book?"
The man replied - "I will commit suicide."
The Librarian asked - "Who will return the book?