Hobbies and Interests

Akshay learnt to play Fur Elise in his piano classes when he was eight or so.

https://youtu.be/KR-3ZTgUKR8

Akshay loved making these little books, folded out of a fool scape sheet - like a private diary where he wrote each sentence with a different colour sketch pen as if he wanted to capture the beauty of every colour of life. Don't miss the word art effect of the first letter and the little stars and triangles and # 1st edition! The only one in his family to write with the left hand. Tip of the Day on the back cover is priceless - If you are writing a book like this don't, and I mean don't write your feelings in it!

This little boy had very clear cut ideas about books and feelings. Maybe he would been a writer, if he had the chance to grow up.  Nasty, nasty Death don't you ever and I mean EVER, do this to anyone.  

July 2010 Suchit had gifted a Taekwondo kicking pad to Akshay and the evening was spent practising kicks.

On Akshay's sporting abilities Suchit says,
Akshay was a great taekwondo and football enthusiast.He was a natural athlete and had great potential to become an excellent taekwondo player.
He will be remembered always.

Akshay loved football. Barcelona was his favourite team.This is his own Barcelona logo

On watching football with Akshay, Shekhar mama recollects:
Every time I watch a football match, I miss Akshay. Of course, I miss him most of the times normally. He was a great companion to watch football with: he was so well informed, he had an almost adult understanding of the sport - about players strengths, their tactics, their positions on the pitch.....he would watch matches intently and in silence, like an adult, get excited when they were brisk moves and rejoice when his favourite player scored.

From 2009 onwards a good part of Akshay's vacation in Bangalore was spent with the family playing Pictionary.

Carolyn recollects those days:

Akshay my darling. Whenever Babli and Akshay came down to B'lore after I married Raj, we would have our own version of pictionary, where every word was all-play. We would look forward to these loud sessions. Akshay and I were such a crack team, I would guess what he's drawn quicker than the rest. He would attack any word he got, even if he didn't understand it. He's patiently spell it out, drawing for each letter. I loved that about him, his never-give-up attitude. I miss you baby. I can't imagine ever playing pictionary again...