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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.
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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…
31 July, 2007
RIP, Michelangelo Antonioni
A few hours ago it was Ingmar Bergman. And now Michelangelo Antonioni has moved on. If I believed in God, I’d assume She was holding a film festival up in heaven.
Antonioni is actually a marker of how my tastes have changed since my teenage years. At that time, I liked Fellini much more than Antonioni, whose films left me cold. But as the years went by, that changed, and two Antonioni films I especially came to love were La Notte and Il Grido. I especially like the way he used music in those films, not as a manipulative device trying to underline the emotions we are supposed to feel, but as a constituent of the narrative in its own right. Beautiful films, both of them.
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