My Life My Style: Radhakrishnan Nair

Best work moment
Launch of Man's World in February 2000 and Rolling Stone India in February 2008.

Books by your bedside
It is a big pile. Those on top: The Childhood of Jesus by J M Coetzee; Tinderbox by M J Akbar; Ganesha on the Dashboard by V Raghunathan & M A Eswaran

Massage or workout to de-stress?
Workout mostly

Designs that have caught your eye recently
Cover of the new Daft Punk album 'Random Access Memories'

Your IT tools
PC for writing; iPad for reading; iPod for music; BlackBerry for calls.

Favourite spirit
Any Islay whisky

Favourite wine
Red, preferably Bordeaux

Favourite champagne
I am nuts about champagne: Moet Imperial, Veuve Clicquot Brut and Dom Perignon, when I am served one

Your sleeping ritual
Reading is the best soporific

Favourite TV show
Boardwalk Empire, BBC Panorama

Best gift received
All the single malts and wines people have gifted me over the years.

Best gift given
Putting a few needy kids through school and college.

Favourite cuisine
Anything that is made well: Indian, Japanese, French and Italian

Food items you like to shop for
Chocolate

Newspaper, TV channels and websites you prefer?
Too many: Indian Express, BBC, Rolling Stone, New Yorker, Expressindia.com, Arts&Letters Daily, New Yorker.com, Huffington Post, 3Quarks Daily, Funny or Die…

Where do you like to sit when being driven? Upfront with the driver or back seat like a sahib?
Back seat. It is more conducive to reading.

On a plane, do you prefer to network, sleep or catch up on films and reading?
Can never sleep, and so I watch movies back-to-back.

What do you cook on your day off?
Can't cook, lucky to be married to someone who can.

Do you fill customer feedback forms? Why?
Sometimes, so that I don't come across as rude.

Favourite city
Where home is, Mumbai

What's your fragrance?
Higher by Christian Dior

You get your work clothes from?
Wherever I find something comfy and stylish, from Canali to Cotton World.

The shoemaker you trust your sole with?
I have quite a few: TOD's, Gucci, Louis Philippe…

Your shaving mantra
Shaving is a waste of time. Grow a beard.

Favourite evening wear
Anything comfortable and stylish.

What's your weekday breakfast like? And weekend?
Weekday: An apple, two bananas, half a pomegranate, a bowl of white oat porridge. Weekend: Indulge

Your current set of wheels
Haven't owned one in years. Make use of my wife's Innova.

In the car, is it sleep or cell for you?
Depends on the time of day.

God for you is…
Hopefully going to do something about the street children in our cities.

Workday lunch is
Mostly at home, since I can walk to work.

Your workout regime
Yoga and weights, every alternate day

Your ideal holiday
At a beach place surrounded by lots of exotic restaurants

Your ideal dance music
Tough guys don't dance! [I] suffer from the two-left-feet syndrome.

At parties, do you like to talk turkey or make PC?
Depends on whom I am talking to and the state of intoxication.

Alpha males you know
Not many actually. Even metalheads are turning into metrosexuals.

Your motto
One from Yeats: 'Perfection of the life or of the work…'

Radhakrishnan Nair

Publisher & Editor of Man's World and Rolling Stone India