What is your idea of happiness?
Its a tie between ‘A good night's sleep (with a clean conscience)’ and ‘A seesaw state of being: being able to equally enjoy stillness and marching onwards.’
What is your greatest fear?
Mediocrity
What is your favourite virtue?
Forgiveness.
What is the principal aspect of your personality?
Curiosity/ Learning. I have boundless fascination for almost everything and I wish to study and understand things better.
What is your main fault?
Procrastination.
For what fault do you have the most tolerance?
Mistakes made while attempting to learn for the better.
What do you hate the most?
The way we are carefully and meticulously helping each other kill this planet. It is painfully hilarious.
What would be your greatest misfortune?
To lose my ability to love. Indifference would be the death of me.
What is your most treasured possession?
My arts.
What is your favourite colour?
Currently, it is deep Indigo Blue.
If not yourself, who would you be?
A better version of myself, of course. It would be tragic to wish to be anybody else!
Who are your favourite poets?
William Blake, John Keats and Nayyirah Waheed among many others.
What is the military event you admire the most?
Even if at the cost of many lives, which makes me sad, I admire every single one that meant emancipating people and other living things from shackles of misunderstood culture and religion.
What is the reform you admire the most?
Reform in a person would be learning and correcting their faults gracefully.
A political reform in the recent times that I admired the most – the legalising of same-sex marriage/relationships in many countries recently.
Which talent would you most like to have?
Painting!
Which character in world history do you most despise?
No such character at all.
What is your favourite food and drink?
Food would be rice and sambar with pappadams and mango pickle. Drink - lemonade!
What is your present state of mind?
Ripe and raw, at the same time.
How would you like to die?
No such preference, really. Except I do hope it would not be a murder!
What is your favourite motto?
‘Stubborn gladness’. (A term coined by Elizabeth Gilbert after reading this line used by Jack Gilbert in his poem ‘A Brief for Defence’ – "We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world")
Parvathy is a popular southern cinema actor from Kerala. Her last released Malayalam films "Ennu Ninte Moideen", and "Charlie" were both successful at box office. She also received best actress Kerala State Film Award for both the movies last year.
