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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.
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.
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Click here for more about my publisher, Hachette India.
And ah, my posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.
Recent entries
I feel hugely sorry for this kid. In her world, it might be a huge deal to become “the…
The Times of India reports: The government has banned Fashion TV for nine days after finding a program it…
Forget Robert McKee and Syd Field: If you want to learn how to make a successful Hollywood film, watch…
Daniel Pepper of CMS has a worrying story up on how RTI activists in India are increasingly facing a…
This sentence says so much about the level of parliamentary debate in India today: Finally, marshals were called in…
29 June, 2007
More than 100%
When Javed Miandad was Pakistan’s coach, he would often give soundbytes about how ‘the boys’ would “give more than 100%” or will “give 150% of their effort” and so on. It’s fairly common usage, and as language gets more and more devalued, I won’t be surprised if people start promising 1000% and suchlike. Anyway, what does this mean really, to give more than 100%? Is it possible to actually do so?
Yes! For a mathematical explanation, click here. Can’t argue with the conclusion.
(Link via email from Rahul Bhatia.)
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