People in the city

Here's how people live in the city and love it like they love their owns...

Here's how people live in the city and love it like they love their owns...

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Amna Mirza

(25)

Research scholar

Nizamuddin (E)

Hometown: Delhi

College: St Stephens college for bachelors and Hindu college for masters degree

Occupation: Research Scholar at Department of Political Science, Delhi University

Facebook friends: 1500

Favourite book:

Argumentative Indian, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Almost Single

Favourite quote: Make yourself deserving before you desire! Good things in life come in small packages!

Favourite film:

Pyasa

Favourite dish: Salads ( I am proud to be a vegan)

Style icon: Shashi Tharoor

Sexual preference: Male

Long hair or short hair: Long Hair

Flats or Stilettos: Flats help to run around but stilettos for evenings

Beer or Wine: Fresh fruit juice

Nose stud or nose ring: Nose stud, I find it better and less flashy than a nose ring

Who inspires you: The young MPs in the Indian Parliament, the athletes who won medals at Commonwealth Games

Your last regret purchase: A

sari

for around Rs 15,000 for the big fat Indian wedding season

Best thing you've ever bought: My omega constellation, a good stylish time machine, helps me to divide time between different activities

Delhi summers or Delhi winters: Winters! Fog, coffee, popcorns, chilling out with friends in evenings, brunches, barbeques

Delhi men or Mumbai men: Men are Men! Region really doesn’t matter

Pet causes: Writing, Research, Sustainable Development

Who does your hair: L’oreal salons and rest of it I take care myself

Pet peeve: Smoking in public places

Favorite spot: in Delhi Café Uno at Shangri La and 360 at the Oberoi’s

Would love to have dinner with: Shashi Tharoor

Pet on the bed or off the bed: Off the bed

Money in your wallet: Rs 2,000

You can never have too many: Junk-jewellery! I love to have a good collection of it for everyday use

Craziest thing you've ever done: This August at Switzerland- Interlaken, while paragliding at Jungfrau mountain, I forgot to carry my warm clothes at top of Europe Alpines, yet I dared to brave the chill and later I fell seriously ill due to that

The one thing you can't live without: My blackberry