Browse Archives
By Category
By Date
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.
If you're interested, do join the Facebook group for My Friend Sancho
Click here for more about my publisher, Hachette India.
My posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.
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…
16 February, 2008
Picasso, Guernica, Free Speech and Islam
Flemming Rose has a superb Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal today, Free Speech and Radical Islam, that I recommend you read in full. My favourite quote from the piece:
It is not cultures, religions or political systems that enjoy rights. Human beings enjoy rights…
Sadly, it is human beings—insecure, immature, cowardly human beings—who march on behalf of these cultures and religions, claiming offense. Such it goes…
Also read:
Do not draw my unicorn
Don’t Insult Pasta
The Origin of Human Rights
(Link via email from Mohit.)
Posted by Amit Varma in
Freedom
