Pico Iyer suggests a frame for those posts about putting Jane Austen, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Turing on currency
What would it be like if more cities, like here in Paris, had streets named after both Rosa Parks and Ferdowsi? Let Tehran have a Thoreau Boulevard, and Washington D.C. an avenue named for Hafez!
— Pico Iyer (@PicoIyer) July 16, 2019