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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.


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.


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Click here for more about my publisher, Hachette India.


And ah, my posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.


Bastiat Prize 2007 Winner

Recent entries

Performance Evaluation

BBC informs us that scientists have now found a way to genetically engineer glowing sperms so they can “track…

In India, Adults aren’t Adults

My friend Rahul Bhatia has a fine story in Open about Dibakar Banerjee’s experience with the censor board during…

Woman in the News

Here’s the WTF headline of the day: Woman co-pilot lands jet solo If that was a man, this wouldn’t…

‘A Jackal Screaming Inside His Head’

Via Ta-Nehisi Coates, I came across this beautiful poem named “Dear Augusta,” by Reginald Dwayne Betts. Check it out—and…

The Curse of Vikram Bhatt

Speaking about his new film Shaapit, Vikram Bhatt says: I did some research and a very important fact emerged.…

17 September, 2007

Remembering Dubai

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.

Posted by Amit Varma in Miscellaneous

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