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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
I’ll be at Crossword bookstore at Kemps Corner this evening, in conversation with Sadanand Dhume at the launch of…
PTI reports on an interesting little controversy in Goa, where some police officers visited an offshore casino. This drew…
On paying the salaries of 22,800 fake employees of the Delhi municipality. That’s right: it’s been discovered that 22,800…
Yesterday, sitting in a doctor’s waiting room, I read a short story by Julian Barnes on my e71 in…
While researching Japanese bidets, I found that Wikipedia has an entry for ‘Lota’. This clearly means that India has…
08 January, 2009
Larry Flynt Seeks Bailout
Larry Flynt of Hustler and Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild have decided to ask the US government for a $5 billion bailout for the porn industry. Flynt explains it thus:
People are too depressed to be sexually active. This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex.
With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind. It’s time for congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America. The only way they can do this is by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly.
Meanwhile, Michael Musto tells Keith Olbermann: “People aren’t paying for sex anymore, Hugh Grant has a girlfriend, for God’s sake!” And there’s the usual joking about stimulus packages and downsizing.
Me, I’m not so worried about porn—it’s the second-oldest industry, after all. I’m more worried about writers, and heartily support Julian Gough’s proposal.
(Links via separate emails from Salil, Deepak (both Flynt), Gaurav (Olbermann) and Neel (Gough).)
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