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On Thu, 16 Apr 15 10:47:01 UTC VK (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- to not be able to think for oneself, articulate thoughts into words and have no access to books
- Where would you like to live?
- In a place where principles of secularism, mixed-socialism, and liberalism exist in purity
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Books, movies, any thing that is worth my time
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- procrastinating stuff
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Those characters which closely resemble real, yet stand out for their sheer determination and will to not conform to the society when it comes to making decisions
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Birbal, Chanakya
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- A rare hybrid of genius and beauty
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Those women who tend to retain the womanly values, yet break the shackles (holding them back) like gender bias, and patriarchy
- Your favorite painter?
- Robert Munich
- Your favorite musician?
- Yanni, Hans Zimmer, Ravi Shankar, A.R. Rehman
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Pragmatism, Logic, Patience, and the kind of man who practises what he preaches
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Pragmatism, Logic, Patience, and the kind of woman who practises what she preaches
- Your favorite virtue?
- The tenets of humanism are my favorite virtues, and the one virtue I can't live without is the virtue of selfishness
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading novels, Writing pieces of fiction (prose/poetry), music, and movies
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Secretary General of UN
- Your most marked characteristic?
- A craving to be understood, with all my flaws and imperfections
- What do you most value in your friends?
- I value trust in friendship, and I've found that friendship is a luxury to me
- What is your principle defect?
- Lethargy
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- the one who does not understand oneself fully can be labelled to have inherited the greatest of misfortunes
- What would you like to be?
- More -- more than just me. I have an ideal set for myself, and I want to be that ideal VK
- What is your favorite color?
- Yellow, Green
- What is your favorite flower?
- Hibiscus
- What is your favorite bird?
- Eagle, Hawk
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Ayn Rand, Richard Bach, Dan Brown, Guy de Maupassant, H.G. Wells, Alexandre Dumas, George Orwell, the list goes on
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Ted Hughes, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Kalidasa
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Bhagat Singh, Swami Vivekananda, Gandhi,
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Rani Lakshmibai
- What are your favorite names?
- VK, Victor
- What is it you most dislike?
- My defects, and delay
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Battle of Longewala
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Will power, charm, and determination
- How would you like to die?
- As a satisfied man, with little regrets and much contentment
- What is your present state of mind?
- Calm -- deliberating on the answers I've typed for this questionnaire
- What is your motto?
- These are some famous mottos I follow -- Expectations Hurt, Practise before you preach. And this is my personal motto -- Just get it done with
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