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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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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…
22 August, 2007
Julian Simon on Demographic Forecasting
Julian Simon writes in The Ultimate Resource:
[D]emographic forecasting is very easy - even movie actresses can do it. Meryl Streep noted that “men were given more than twice as many roles as women in 1989 movies”, and then she forecast that “by the year 2000 we will have 13 percent of roles...and in 20 years we will be eliminated from the movies.”
Heh.
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