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My Friend Sancho
My first novel, My Friend Sancho, is now on the stands across India. It is a contemporary love story set in Mumbai, and was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. To learn more about the book, click here.
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Recent entries
So I’m back and somewhat recovered from TED India. I’m slowly settling into the rhythms of my usual life…
Blogging and tweeting will be light for the next few days. I was selected as a TED Fellow a…
Ross Douthat, in an excellent piece in The New York Times, argues that America needs more third-party dynamism, particularly…
I am not a fan of Ayn Rand’s work: Her prose is mediocre and her novels are cheesy. Even…
Johann Hari, writing in The Independent, weighs the different arguments for why we are so obsessed by celebrity: The…
10 July, 2009
‘Aggressive By Nature’
Via Dilip, I come across this astonishing statement made by Shiney Ahuja’s lawyer, Shrikant Shivde, about the girl he is alleged to have raped:
She belongs to a lower caste, which is aggressive by nature, and she wouldn’t have submitted herself so easily. They are known for being aggressive.
You know, I don’t care now whether Ahuja is guilty or he’s being framed. A side that makes an argument like this deserves to get its ass kicked. They should lock Ahuja up and throw away the key—and if he feels horny all alone in his cell, throw in Shivde.
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