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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
I’ll be at Crossword bookstore at Kemps Corner this evening, in conversation with Sadanand Dhume at the launch of…
PTI reports on an interesting little controversy in Goa, where some police officers visited an offshore casino. This drew…
On paying the salaries of 22,800 fake employees of the Delhi municipality. That’s right: it’s been discovered that 22,800…
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…
11 March, 2009
Now Housewives Want Sops
This is quite the WTF headline of the week:
Kerala housewives demand pay from govt
Actually wait, on second thoughts, what’s so WTF about it? Why is this odder than any damn subsidy that the government of India gives? If the GoI can support failing businesses (for by definition only a failing business needs a subsidy), and pilgrims headed on pilgrimage, and all manners of interest groups, then why not housewives? If you take from Peter to pay Paul, and Prakash, and Pervez, and Pestonjee, then why not also pay Parvati?
Needless to say, that’s our tax money out there, and we’re all Peter. But we’re reconciled to that now, and apathetic towards it, so we’re never going to fight over the way it’s used. Also, some of us are fighting to be Paul and Prakash and Parvati, so there’s that. Maybe I should start a movement to subsidize bloggers?
(Link via separate emails from Shyam and Vineet.)
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