(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)
RPR, BOM
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)
Cheapest available
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
around 25k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Premier, M&M Senator etc)
Nope
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.)
upgrades and award tickets. Not bothered about premeir status and lounges
(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
Everything from India, domestic and to Europe, SE Asia.
(7) Preferred Airlines
Air India, Jet Airways
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)
Pleasure. Buying my own tickets.

Have 0 miles on every program. Currently in US but will move to India in December. Travel economy everywhere. Advantage of United Mileage Plus is that I can redeem miles on my occassional jet airways flight as well since they are codeshare partners with UA.

I posted this on the star alliance thread but since that thread doesnt look very active I am posting it here as well.

My preference is to join one of the star alliance' programs. I would prefer a program which allows for good earning of miles on international and domestic jet airways and air india flights plus on international flights on one of the gulf carriers (etihad or emirates)

Thanks