A born contrarian, he makes entertaining mincemeat of self-satisfied politicians, and shreds received ideas and media-spun consensus with a fearlessness that is invaluable in our mealymouthed punditocracy.
The right hand would have been raised in the gesture of fearlessness (abhayamudra), and the left hand lowered in the gesture of bestowal (varadamudra).
Five consistent and stable narrow traits were identified, described as playfulness, curiosity/fearlessness, chase-proneness, sociability and aggressiveness.