1.I have wanted to master the flute for many years now but have only recently gathered the courage to buy one and start playing.
2.The more people force me to exercise and preach about the dangers of an unhealthy diet, the more determined I am to retain my flabby physique.
3.Though I am not one, I have to constantly tell people I am an atheist, since they have no idea what a deist is.
4.To the horror of many friends, I am an ardent devotee of Rajnikanth.
5.My writing ability, in my judgement, is good enough to make me a living. Most see this evaluation as ridiculous.
6.I have nothing but contempt for Indians who pride themselves on being able to understand only English.
7.I am a near-absolute carnivore.
8.That the best period of my life was in Malaysia, where I neither learnt nor achieved anything, worries me sometimes.
9.I grow tired of people very easily and live in constant dread that they are growing tired of me too.
10.My favourite bird is the hawk only because both my favourite wrestler and my favourite G.I.Joe character have the same name.
11.I have recurring fantasies of hosting BBC Hardtalk and impressing the female audience of the show with my tough questions.
12.If I could direct films, I would make a string of black-and-white biopics.
13.I think the worst way to die is to be eaten alive by tiny insects.
14.My career ambitions range from novelist to diplomat to journalist to lawyer, making me terribly paranoid about the future.
15.I constantly overrate myself and pay heavy prices for it.
16.I get irritated when people say rap is not “real” music.
17.My favourite superpower as a child was super-strength, but I am now growing fonder of mind-control.
18.I hope to travel to and write from, at the very least, about seventy countries before I die.
19.I can’t decide who my favourite writer is between Christopher Hitchens and V S Naipaul.
20.I don’t fear death nearly as much as I fear the ways in which I might die.
21.I am considerably proud of my sense of humour, though several friends don’t believe I have one.
22.My ideal home is a luxury apartment in one of the world’s mega-cities. No mansions for Nilan.
23.I am prepared to spend a significant portion of my life defending the idea that South Park is the greatest television show of all time.
24.I suffer from an identity crisis. Being a Sri Lankan citizen who spent his whole life thinking of himself as an Indian isn’t easy.
25.I am glad this list is over.
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