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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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And ah, my posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.
Recent entries
Speaking about his new film Shaapit, Vikram Bhatt says: I did some research and a very important fact emerged.…
The Indian Express informs us of the invention of a washing machine for pets, which “gives pets an automatic…
The WTF opening sentence of the day comes from a Rediff report: According to the National Crime Record Bureau…
Heard about the recent furore over the garland of thousand-rupee notes that was presented to her Royal Majesty, Mayawati,…
I feel hugely sorry for this kid. In her world, it might be a huge deal to become “the…
23 January, 2010
My Walking Stick Is Bigger Than Yours
The line of the day, which I want to see on a t-shirt before I die, comes from the great Mahinder Watsa:
Why have a walking stick if your own penis can oblige!
I especially love the touch of having the exclamation mark at the end of the rhetorical question. Immense panache. The quote is from here, and is part of a recent development in Watsa’s writing—he’s actually beginning to indulge in wisecracks. Consider his crack here about how he thought only frogs were green—or his advice here to “eat any vegetable you like best and with every bite think a sexual thought.”
The questions, of course, are as clueless as ever. Still, we’re over a billion people strong, and the stork sure didn’t bring them.
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Ouch. Did I just write, “Consider his crack here...?” Somebody hit me.
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Earlier posts on Watsa: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
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