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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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21 August, 2007
Chutiyas of the world, rejoice
The kind Prem Panicker sends me this clipping from a UNI feed:
Chutiya tribe to organise massive agitation for ST status
Guwahati, Aug 20 (UNI) The All Chutiya Jati Sanmilan, Assam, today declared it would undertaken intensive agitation to press for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status the tribe, along with five other tribes, a demand rejected by the Union Ministry on August 14 last.
Sadly, I could not find a link to this online. But you can read more about the Chutiyas here.
I know some of my friends will be very excited at the thought of getting ST status. Let me remind them that these are proper noun Chutiyas we are talking about, not common noun chutiyas. No special entitlements for us, sadly.
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