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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…
01 September, 2008
Mr Macho Prime Minister
This is quite the headline of the day:
Russia’s PM saves TV crew from Siberian tiger.
This is where an image of Manmohan Singh wrestling with a peacock comes into my head. He’s trying to save a young schoolgirl from our national bird, and is on the ground trying to pin it down.
Schoolgirl: Manmohan uncle, Manmohan uncle, that peacock wasn’t harming me. Why are you fighting it?
Manmohan: Because I’m a man, that’s what I am. What did Soniaji mean by sending me a link to that ridiculous news piece about Putin? I can also fight. I am also macho. Hey, come back. Peacock! Come back!
(Link via email from Dhananjay.)
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