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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.
To buy it online from the US, click here.
I am currently on a book tour to promote the book. Please check out our schedule of city launches. India Uncut readers are invited to all of them, no pass required, so do drop in and say hello.
If you're interested, do join the Facebook group for My Friend Sancho
Click here for more about my publisher, Hachette India.
And ah, my posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.
... is immensely cool. All you do is type out a word in English, hit ‘space’, and boom, it’s Devanagari. Most joyous. Here’s a screenshot of my mucking around:
Would my readers be surprised to know that I got more marks in Hindi than in English in both my 10th and 12th standard exams? Maybe I should start a Hindi blog now. Bharat Uncuttiya, anyone?
(Link via chat from AR Hemant.)
Update: I just discovered that MadMan also sent me this link on August 10. So another tip of the hat…
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This Salman Khan deserves to be called a hero. Terrific educational videos. (Via Prashant.)
Elisabeth Rosenthal has some good Swine-Flu advice. (Via Griff.)
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Netherland is an Indian novel accidentally written by an Irishman
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