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About Amit Varma
Amit Varma is a writer based in Mumbai. He worked in journalism for over a decade, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007. His bestselling novel, My Friend Sancho, was published in 2009. He is best known for his blog, India Uncut. These days, he makes his living playing poker as he works on his second novel.
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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Click here for more about my publisher, Hachette India.
My posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.
Recent entries
This is the third installment of my weekly poker column in the Economic Times, Range Rover. If Jimi Hendrix was…
This is the third installment of Lighthouse, my monthly column for BLink, a supplement of the Hindu Business Line. Indian…
This is the second installment of my weekly poker column in the Economic Times, Range Rover. ‘Math is over-rated in…
This is the first instalment of Range Rover, a new weekly column on poker I am writing for the Economic…
This is the second installment of Lighthouse, my monthly column for BLink, a supplement of the Hindu Business Line. ‘For…
25 February, 2007
Slut, whore etc
How hypocritical it is of us to use terms like ‘slut’ and ‘whore’ as pejoratives. We are all sluts. We are all whores.
Aren’t we?
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Small thoughts
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