Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Samyak Misra, Hauz Khas Village Delhi Proustians by The Delhi Walla - July 18, 2013July 18, 20131 The Proustian self-introspection. [By The Delhi Proustians] The Proust Questionnaire represents a form of interview that owes its structure to answers given by French novelist Marcel Proust, the author of In Search of Lost Time, at two birthday parties that he attended at ages 13 and 20 in the late 19th century. In 2013, The Delhi Proustians takes Les confidences de salon (Drawing room confessions) around the city to explore people’s lives, thoughts, values and experiences. This series would involve interviews across Delhi and will be conducted by writers Manika Dhama and Mayank Austen Soofi. For the third instalment in the series Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire, investment analyst Samyak Misra made confessions to Manika Dhama during a morning stroll at Deer Park and brunch at Amici Café, Hauz Khas Village. Your favorite virtue or the principal aspect of your personality Fairness Your favorite qualities in a man Grit Your favorite qualities in a woman Kindness Your chief characteristic Eccentricity What do you appreciate the most in your friends? Openness Your main fault Analysis Paralysis Your favorite occupation Investment Analysis Your idea of happiness Śūnyatā Your idea of misery or what would be your greatest misfortune? Inaction If not yourself, who would you be? An anonymous soldier Where would you like to live? Berlin Your favourite colour and flower Sky-blue and White Marigolds Your favorite bird Sparrow Your favorite prose authors Charlie Munger Your favorite poets I don’t read poems Your favorite heroes in fiction Sherlock Holmes Your favorite heroines in fiction M Your favorite composers Eddie Vedder and Jim Morrison Your favorite painters No nuanced sense of art Your heroes/heroines in real life Charlie Munger What characters in history do you most dislike? Caligula Your heroines in World history Margaret Thatcher Your favorite food and drink Chicken salad with lots of lettuce and bell-peppers. Fizzy Lemonade. Your favorite names Hobbes, Garfield What do you hate the most? Duplicity The military event you admire the most Battle of Marathon The reform you admire the most Magna Carta The natural talent you’d like to be gifted with Quicker and more synapse How do you wish to die? Kissing the one I love What is your present state of mind? Happy Faults for which you have the most tolerance Stupidity Your motto in life To each his own Diving deep within, like Marcel 1. 2. 3. 4. FacebookX Related Related posts: Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Manika Dhama, Barakhamba Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Gajra, Sector 34, Noida Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Mayank Austen Soofi, Fresc Co Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Pradeep Chaturvedi, Gurgaon Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Puja Verma, Gurgaon