Save Yourself to Save the Other, Planet Included

Who you are is who you are, your basic traits like your basic instincts hardly ever vanish.

- Anu Aggarwal

Or shall we say, your old crafts stay with you rather than die. For me, being interviewed is as fresh an art as ever before. Whether it is with a leading Indian tabloid or an international one like the Los Angeles Times, my answers are prompt, direct, and in their creative humour maybe a bit tongue in cheek. I rule the rooster like I always have. I am quick to banish misunderstandings and false claims about my character, or revealing certain hidden personal traits, or tackling curious questions about my single and solo status, mind you a happy one. In a press conference I may not seem like Prince Hamlet, to move the stage soliloquising on my complete failure in life—my near-fatal accident, which I call a near-death-experience. I wrote out in poems my severe trauma, languishing, ha