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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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My posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.
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…
09 July, 2007
Maula Mere Maula
My inner voice tells me that I am not self-indulgent enough on this blog, and that I should post more about myself. This is immensely problematic, for my life is filled with boringness, and any more of me would surely mean less of you. Still, inner voices cannot be fought for long, for they are inner, so I’ve decided that from today I’ll post a bit more about the music, films and books that I happen to be enjoying. Much of that will be on Rave Out—which is fortunate to have a new contributor in Salil Tripathi—and some will be here.
Starting now: Below is a superb song I’ve been playing repeatedly over the last couple of days, “Maula Mere Maula,” from the film Anwar. It’s composed by a newcomer named Mithoon (interviewed here), and wonderfully sung by Roop Kumar Rathod. The actors in the video are Siddharth Koirala and Nauheed Cyrusi, who exudes gorgeousity, though I suspect she’d have seemed less attractive if some disco nonsense was playing in the background instead of this lovely song.
A few weeks ago, you might remember, I was into Sona Mohapatra. Ah, what a song that is!
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