His passions were letter writing and linguistics (in which he practices a spirited game of one-upmanshiping with Ashvi) and Radio Kuwait at 12.30 at night which he inflicts upon his dorm mates with a Hey, have you heard this one which is purely rhetoric since one can't help but have done so, his transistor being endowed with an unusually powerful speaker. It is Kannan's greatest ambition to speak Hindi as the Hindoos do. Ad man classes were a rare treat for him since he would sleep through the Hindi movies with a clear conscience.