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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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And ah, my posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.


Bastiat Prize 2007 Winner

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Welcome to the 19th Century

Ah, modern times. Check out these two amazing news headlines: Community ostracises woman touched by outsider Muslims on social…

Hachette on the Rise

Just back from the Galle Lit Fest, rested, and all set to resume blogging. Let me begin with the…

Off to Galle

In a few hours, I’m off to the Galle Literary Festival. Blogging will be light till I’m back in…

Why Australia? Why Not Dubai?

Reader Ruchir Khare writes in to point me to this passage from the Johann Hari piece on Dubai that…

An Offence That Cannot Be Ignored

The WTF statement of the week comes from a Dubai cop: The woman confessed that she had sexual intercourse…

22 October, 2009

Bad Vibrations

The WTF sentence of the day is a classic case of trying too damn hard. Mumbai Mirror, while reporting how Sanjay Leela Kempinski lost his temper of the sets of a film he’s shooting, tells us:

On seeing Bhansali’s fit of rage, the entire unit trembled with fright.

The entire unit trembled with fright? That must have been quite a sight. Really, now, is it asking too much to actually sit back and read one’s copy after it has been written?

And don’t get me started on that headline.

Posted by Amit Varma in Arts and entertainment | India | Journalism | Media | News | WTF

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