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Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Samyak Misra, Hauz Khas Village

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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

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