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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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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…
12 September, 2007
Sex Leave
The Russian government has access to some seriously good dope. CNN-IBN reports:
The governor of a central Russian province urged couples to skip work on Wednesday and make love instead.
And if a woman gives birth in exactly nine months time - on Russia’s national day on June 12 - she will qualify for a prize.
Or the couple could do it on the weekend and try for a premature delivery. Really, I wonder how enjoyable the sex is if it’s taking place because of an incentive offered by the state. I can imagine this conversation:
Woman: What is it darling, I’ll all naked, and your wee-wee is wee-wee?
Man: Sweetheart, it’s a problem today, I just can’t, um, get it up. Can we play scrabble instead?
Woman: I don’t believe this! This is disgraceful!
Man: Chess? Gilli-danda?
Woman: But why? (plaintively) Is it me?
Man: No sweetheart, you see, I’m a libertarian, and if the state tells me to do something…
(Link via email from Andy.)
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