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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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Click here for more about my publisher, Hachette India.
My posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.
Recent entries
I have three hypothetical questions for you guys. Humour me and try and read all the way through. One.…
I was on a CNN-IBN show earlier this evening, where the topic under discussion was the arrest of two…
I suppose I should display some empathy here, but I can’t help but be a little amused by the…
’Before anyone else was interested in the ornithology of terror he saw the gathering birds,’ Salman Rushdie writes about…
Check out this TED Talk by Tony Porter on how men get trapped in a ‘Manbox’—and women bear the…
18 May, 2008
Facebook and the IPL
Inspired by Brian Sack’s Facebook news feed from 1945, I’ve tried to imagine how Facebook would render the IPL. Some entries:
Harbhajan Singh has slapped S Sreesanth.
S Sreesanth and Matthew Hayden are now friends.
Vijay Mallya wrote on Giancarlo Fisichella’s wall:
“Gian, can you play cricket? I need you.”
Rahul Dravid is nostalgic for 2006.
Sourav Ganguly is updating Facebook while the opposing captain waits at the toss. Muhahaha!
Preity Zinta wrote on Shah Rukh Khan’s wall:
“Cheer up, it could be worse. Have you heard that Aamir’s dog is named after you and licks his feet?”
Ajay Jadeja added the Puppydog application and joined The Lekha Washington Fan Club
And so on. I’m not good with graphics, so I can’t actually recreate it, but if you want to fool around, feel free to use the entries above.
Update: The kind TA Abinandanan writes in to point me to Krish Ashok’s Facebook Mahabharatha. Funky farmgirls fumigate furiously!
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