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<b>My Life My Style:</b> Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
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Last Updated : Dec 06 2013 | 9:52 PM IST
Best work moment
5 pm every day

Books on your bedside
All my Friends are Dead by Avery Johnson and Jory John

Massage or workout to de-stress?
Casual sex, if I can help it

Favourite accessory
My nervous tic

Designs that have caught your eye recently
I recently bought a harness on the Internet

Your IT tools?
My nephews

Favourite spirit
My grandmother

Favourite champagne
We must be serious a moment. Dom Perignon

Your sleeping ritual
With as many people as possible

Favourite TV show
Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani

Favourite accessory
Can openers. You can loop many together into a kind of necklace

Favourite cuisine
Italian

Food items you like to shop for
Truffle oil

Where do you like to sit when being driven? Up front with driver or back seat like sahib?
On top, tethered

On a plane, do you prefer to network, sleep or catch up on films and reading?
I lock up in the loo while old people pace outside

Fancy coffee or masala tea?
Beer?

What do you cook on your day off?
Vicious gossip

Do you fill customer feedback forms? Why?
Yes, to remind people they are failing every single day of their lives

Are you a beach or mountain person?
Dress for the mountains but go to the beach: with a ski mask you don't need tanning oil

Your favourite city
Stockholm

What's your fragrance?
Take three tablespoons of linseed oil . . .Beer?

You get your work clothes from
At work I usually avoid wearing clothes

The shoemaker you trust your sole with
Chandrakant Pandit, Matheran

Your shaving mantra
This will be over soon, and we'll get to your face

The gels and oils and lotions you swear by
I swear prolifically, and at everyone

Your favourite evening-wear
Diamond tiaras

What is your weekday breakfast like? And weekend?
Expansive. Greasy. I generally fall down afterward

In the car is it sleep or cell for you?
I chant incessantly

God for you is…
Having a bad judgment call

Favourite cafe
Prithvi, Juhu

Favourite restaurant
Gunpowder, Assagao, Goa

Workday lunch is
Hearty

Your workout regime
Running from my mother-in-law

Your ideal dance music
Chicane

At parties do you like to talk turkey or make PC?
I'm in the corner, weeping, they ran out of pistachios

A few of your Goddesses
Are seeing a divorce lawyer this week

Alpha males you know
Bobo the Gorilla

Your favourite motto
This is not going to hurt

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Writer, photographer

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First Published: Dec 06 2013 | 9:37 PM IST

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