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My Friend Sancho
My first book, My Friend Sancho, was published in May 2009, and went on to become the biggest selling debut novel released that year in India. It is a contemporary love story set in Mumbai, and had earlier been longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. To learn more about the book, click here.
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Recent entries
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Jonah Lehrer writes in Wired: Here’s a brain teaser: Your task is to move a single line so that…
So while everyone’s celebrating the arrival of Akhilesh Yadav and how he’s revitalised the Samajwadi Party and UP Politics,…
... is done. The next time India walk out to play a Test match, my favourite sportsman of all…
06 November, 2007
A Miracle
A girl is born in Bihar with four arms and four legs. Here’s how her village folk react:
As news of her birth spread among the 500 inhabitants of Rampur Kodar Katti — a remote settlement without electricity or running water — men, women and children queued for a darshan, or blessing, from the baby.
According to doctors, only an operation to separate her from her “‘parasitical’, headless, undeveloped ‘twin’, which is joined to her body at the pelvis,” will help her “survive beyond early adolescence.” Thankfully, her parents have allowed common sense to triumph over silly superstition. Her mother was quoted as saying:
I believe that Lakshmi is a miracle, a reincarnation, but she is my daughter and she cannot live a normal life like this.
Indeed, sometimes a normal life itself can seem like a miracle. Only science can help this child get there.
(Link via email from MadMan.)
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