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    I use this page to list interesting people / blogs / articles / books and forums I like. I have divided the same into 4 sections.

    • photography
    • travel
    • personal finance
    • startups / starter-preneurship
    • other

    PHOTOGRAPHY

    A. Photographers I admire (adventure, travel, wildlife, birding, portraits, etc)

       

    1. Galen Rowell (the adventure photographer I like the most)
    2. Mitchell Kanashkevich (highly talented travel photographer)
    3. Joe McNally (internationally acclaimed photographer, particularly known for his lighting skills)
    4. David duChemin (Internationally acclaimed photographer / author)
    5. Kalyan Varma (Photography expert, BBC explorer and naturalist from Bangalore)
    6. Shankar H Ganesh (Photography expert)
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    B. Favorite photography books

       

    C. Articles on photography

    1. “Photographing people” by Gavin Gough
    2. “Filters for landscape photography” by Darwin Wiggett
    3. “16 tips for fine art photography” by Alan Briot
    4. “Equipment buying patter” by Ganesh Shankar
    5. “The art and science of bird photography” by Sudhir Shivaram
    6. “Give your bird photos soul” by Marie Read

    TRAVEL

    A.Travelers / travel bloggers / travel companies I admire

    1. Rolf Potts
    2. Backpacking Ninja – Aparna Roy
    3. Lakshmi Sharath
    4. Arun
    5. Shree Kumar
    6. Yellow leg book store for travellers

    B. Cycling resources based mostly in Bangalore

    1. Bikezone (Cycling forum)
    2. Bangalore Bikers club (Cycling forum)
    3. Tour of Nilgiris (the year end festival of cycling to Nilgiris and back)
    4. Cycling and more (a cycling travel company I really like)

    C. Articles on travel, trekking, birding, hiking, cycling, etc

    1. “What to carry on a trek?” by CTC

    D. Favorite travel related books

    E. Favorite travel related movies

    1. Into the wild (a book / movie that had a lot of influence on me)
    2. Touching the void
    3. Motorcycle diaries
    4. One crazy ride
    5. Riding solo on top of the world (documentary on riding alone to the Changthang plateau)
    6. Cave of the yellow dog (a documentary based in Mongolia)
    7. 7 years in Tibet (please bear with Brad Pitt’s poor acting, everything else is brilliant)

    PERSONAL FINANCE

    A.  Investors / personal finance bloggers I admire

    1. Rohit Chauhan (Rohit is my favorite financial blogger)
    2. Prof Sanjay Bakshi
    3. Warren Buffett
    4. Benjamin Graham
    5. Phil Fisher
    6. Peter Lynch
    7. The simple dollar
    8. Get rich slowly

    B. Favorite finance and business books

    C. Favorite Articles

    1. Why investors are wrong most of the time? by Prof. Sanjay Bakshi

    D. Personal finance resources

    1. GNU Cash (The best free open source financial software. )

    STARTUP / STARTER-PRENEURSHIP

    A. Articles / blogs

    1. Startup ideas out of your ‘own’ needs by Paul Graham
    2. Art of Bootstrapping by Guy Kawasaki
    3. Mistakes of startups by Paul Graham
    4. 10 questions any startup should ask every month by Smart bear
    5. Naming your startup by Guy Kawasaki
    6. 13 things for a startup by Paul Graham
    7. Why startups die by Paul Graham
    8. Cost involved in an Indian web startup by Prateek Dayal
    9. Measure of success for a Web 2.0 venture by Nithya Dayal
    10. You don’t need a great idea to start a company by Elad
    11. Ways to make money by Jason Fried

    B. Interesting books on startups

    C. Start-uppers I admire

    1. Flipkart team
    2. Paul Graham
    3. Jason Fried
    4. Sameer Shisodia
    5. Prateek / Nithya Dayal

    OTHER

    A. Articles on personal development

    1. “The brand called You” by Tom Peters
    2. “Do you have 16 boxes?” by Seth Godin
    3. “Stop doing lists” by Jim Collins

    B. Favorite personal development books

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