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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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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…
26 May, 2008
Some Say Wild Boar
If you’d like to do some wildlife tourism, but are too busy swishing in and out of offices and airports, I have a solution for you: find some work in Nagpur and fly there. DNA reports:
The upgraded international airport at Nagpur may look swanky, but wild animals in the vicinity of the sprawling aerodrome premises continue to threaten flying operations.
The latest scare came on Tuesday night, when an Indian Airlines flight IC 736 with 27 passengers aboard ran over a pig (some say wild boar), which had strayed into the runway, during take-off at the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, official sources said. The city airport, spread over an area of 1,460 acres, is home to wild animals like nilgais, cheetals and wild boars.
I feel sorry for the boars. Being run over by a plane must hurt (momentarily), but being called a pig, as if boars are Indian men, must hurt even more.
In more airport news, Udhay Shankar N quotes Aadisht Khanna’s experiences at Bangalore’s new airport on his blog.
And, in the WTF piece of the day, DNA reporter Aastha Atray Banan writes that “we live in a world where fashion matters,” and proceeds to tell us her idea of “the ideal airport wear.” T-shirt and jeans won’t do; salwar kurtas are “the traditional equivalent of the T-shirt and jeans”; tracks make her “shudder.”
I hope she runs into a wild boar one of these days.
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