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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
Via Mudra Mehta, here’s a superb comic by the always-brilliant XKCD: [embedded image] So all you girls complaining about…
Being a three-time winner, I was inducted into the Indibloggies Hall of Fame this year, which means that I…
Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the tragedy in Bhopal. My friend Peter Griffin has a post on this…
The news para of the day comes from a Times of India report on the International Film Festival of…
Mahatma Gandhi’s use of this particular tactic might have sanctified it, but in my opinion, threatening to fast unto…
17 October, 2009
Education
Another superb quote I just came across:
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
-- Quentin Tarantino
It’s the same with books and writing, I’d say. You learn first by reading for pleasure—and then by writing. I’m not sure what you could learn in a classroom.
Posted by Amit Varma in
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Small thoughts
