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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
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…
Via @saba_imtiaz, here’s a speech that’s surely going to become a YouTube classic: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari giving a speech…
The Times of India has a news report up about a 12-year-old-girl raped in a moving car. This happened…
This is quite the quote of the day: The accidents are not my responsibility as I am not in…
11 October, 2009
Murder? None Of Our Business
Remember my recent post about how cops in Delhi argued over jurisdiction while a woman was being gang-raped? How do you satirize something like that? Here’s one way: You have a man walk into a police station and confess to murdering his wife—only to be turned away by the police, and directed to go to another police station, because the scene of the crime does not come under their jurisdiction.
Wait—is that too unbelievable?
You know what I’m getting at. It really happened.
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