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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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Recent entries
So it’s about 10.45pm, and we’re headed in a tourist taxi to Siena Village, a resort a few kilometres…
I don’t know why, but I find this kind of funny. And what’s with the quote marks in that…
Jonah Lehrer writes in Wired: Here’s a brain teaser: Your task is to move a single line so that…
So while everyone’s celebrating the arrival of Akhilesh Yadav and how he’s revitalised the Samajwadi Party and UP Politics,…
... is done. The next time India walk out to play a Test match, my favourite sportsman of all…
07 March, 2007
Greg Chappell and the Bong Bombshell
Greg Chappell walks into his hotel room after a hard day’s play. To his immense surprise, there is a Bong bombshell on his bed, in an elegant tanter sari. She smiles at him, raises one eyebrow seductively, and lets her palloo drop.
Chappell: My goodness, what is this? Who are you?
Bombshell: Greg-da, I’m a huge fan of yours, and I’ve come to express my admiration for your sexy, ahem, coaching!
Chappell: Take off your sari immediately!
Bombshell: What, so fast? I thought you were into ‘process’ and all.
Chappell: Off with your sari before I get violent!
Bombshell: Ok, baba, ok, off it comes. [Starts getting out of sari.] So all these stories about your being vegan are highly exaggerated. Well, I can’t wait. I always did prefer the faster form of the game.
[Bombshell takes off her sari and hands it to Chappell, her bosom heaving within a scandalously inadequate blouse. Chappell grabs the sari, and tears it up into 20 tanter pieces.]
Chappell: Now get out!
Bombshell: Huh? Big boy, why did you get the covers off the pitch if you didn’t intend to do any batting? I mean, my sari…
Chappell: I don’t care about you, never did like Bongs anyway. It was the sari that pissed me off.
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IANS reports:
As comeback man Sourav Ganguly gears up to prove himself on the 22 yards of the Caribbeans, he also makes an appearance on the nine-yards of cloth all Indian women love to wear - the traditional sari!
With the World Cup bugle sounded and Ganguly making a fairy-tale comeback, the famed handloom weavers of West Bengal are encashing on the frenzy as ‘Sourav saris’ are set to hit the market.
Dada, as Ganguly is fondly called, is being featured on the Bengali tanter sari (handloom sari) made at Katwa in Burdwan district, about 150 north of here.
Joy. After Ganguly’s remarkable comeback, I’m sure there’ll be many takers for those saris. Who knows, if India win the World Cup, they might even put Chappell on the border of the Ganguly sari, and all will be hunky dory again.
Update: If Mandira Bedi can have Dravid on her chest, what’s wrong with Ganguly saris?
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