Goa, London, Amsterdam, N. CaliforniaYour favourite birdThe Indian rose-ringed parakeetYour favourite prose authorsBR Ambedkar, Romila Thapar, Perry Anderson, JM Coetzee, John Keay... Your favourite heroes in fictionBrás Cubas in The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis. Don Fabrizio in The Leopard by Giuseppe di LampedusaYour favourite heroines in fictionJanie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Shanti in The Legend of Virinara by Usha AlexanderYour heroes/heroines in real lifeBilkis Bano, Harsh Mander, Bezwada Wilson, Rana Ayyub... Your heroines in world historySojourner Truth, Savitribai Phule, Harriet Tubman, Simone de Beauvoir...

Source: Hindustan Times February 05, 2021 21:37 UTC