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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
Padma Shrimati
Aishwarya Rai, in an interview with CNN-IBN, says:
He [Abhishek Bachchan] is the real ‘Padma Shri’ and I’m his ‘Padma Shrimati’ (giggles).
Immensely cloying cuteness, but they’re a young couple, so fine, we can forgive them that. But if we are to take this line of thinking further, Amitabh is Padma Babuji, Jaya is Padma Mom, and Amar Singh is Padma Uncle. I think all government awards are a waste of taxpayer resources—true achievers hardly need government validation—and this is a perfect opportunity for the government to stop this Padma nonsense. “No more government awards,” the minister in charge should announce. “Our sentiments have been hurt.”
(HT: Nishit.)
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