Writers : Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Doyle, Christe and Marquez

Saradindu Bandopadhay, Rabindranath Tagore, Banophool, Amitav Ghosh and Jhumpa Lahiri

Filmmakers : My favourite is Mrinal Sen.

I also like Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha, Gautam Ghosh, Dr Bhaben Saikia , and a few others.

Foreign filmmakers I admire are De Sica, Bunuel, Hitchcock, Martin Scorcese, Paul Cox, Peter Weir,


Actors : My favourite is Robert De Niro. I also like

Marlon Brando, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks (English)

Pramathesh Barua, Bikash Roy, Utpal Dutt, Bhanu Bandopadhay & Robi Ghosh (Bangla)

Indra Baniya, Biju Phukan, Nipen Goswami & Bhishnu Khargoria (Assamese)

Motilal, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Om Puri, and Mithun Chakravorty(Hindi).

Actresses : My favourite is Meg Ryan

I also like
Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep, Gweneth Paltrow (English)

Sabitri Chaterji, Arundhuti Devi, Debasree Roy, Sreela Mazumdar (Bengali)

Moloya Goswami, Purabi Sharma (Assamese)

Smita Patil (Hindi)