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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.
To buy it online from the US, click here.
I am currently on a book tour to promote the book. Please check out our schedule of city launches. India Uncut readers are invited to all of them, no pass required, so do drop in and say hello.
If you're interested, do join the Facebook group for My Friend Sancho
Click here for more about my publisher, Hachette India.
And ah, my posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.
Line of the day:
Before Dubai, a place like Dubai existed only in Sim City 2000.
That’s from my buddy Rahul Bhatia’s lovely post on how Dubai, or his notion of it, has changed over the years. I ended up quoting just that one line instead of an excerpt because every paragraph is worthy of being quoted by itself, and I couldn’t decide. Read the full post.
If that boy doesn’t become the best travel writer of his generation before he dies, I will kill him. Promise.
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This Salman Khan deserves to be called a hero. Terrific educational videos. (Via Prashant.)
Elisabeth Rosenthal has some good Swine-Flu advice. (Via Griff.)
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Dev.D doesn't flinch from depicting the individual’s downward spiral
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Netherland is an Indian novel accidentally written by an Irishman
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