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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.
I see this all the time in the blogosphere.
Besides dissonance, I think many people have a hard time tackling complexity and nuance. It’s much easier to have a simple position consisting of absolute values, and then to view everything through the prism of that worldview.
(Link via Silk-list. Related columns by me: Reason vs Rationalisation. The Comfort of a Worldview.)
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