ET Ask Home, a monthly questionnaire

With November guest Neil Bhatiya

Paid subscribers get two extra issues a month. One of those is ET Ask Home, inspired by  Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire (now featuring new questions for 2024). This month’s guest is Neil Bhatiya, self-described financial crimes fighter and also my husband.

Hi! Thanks for doing this. Please put down how you’d like to be identified here:

 I am a (self-described) financial crimes fighter and policy wonk. More importantly, I am your husband.  

Is there a particular photo you’d like me to use? It doesn’t have to be of you. It can be of, like, a dog.

What is a piece of writing (book, play, poem, etc) that you think of often?

In 5th grade, my teacher assigned a small group of us Melba Patllio Beals's Warriors Don't Cry. Beals was one of the Little Rock Nine, and the book is her memoir of the forcible integration of Little Rock Central High School. She was 15 and had to go to school escorted by soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division because of how dedicated Arkansas was to keeping the races separated. Our teacher gave us this book with the explanation "I want you to read this because you have a strong sense of right and wrong." No one had expressed it that way to me before and that framing, as well as the content of the book, have stayed with me.