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My Friend Sancho

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.


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Bastiat Prize 2007 Winner

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Another Independence Day

July 2, 2009—mark this day. It’s a big day in the history of independent India because today was the…

Savita Bhabhi Fights Censorship

A dull government office. A pot-bellied bureaucrat in a safari suit sits behind a table on which many dusty…

‘My Mother’s Fault’

My friend Salil Tripathi was in Bombay this week to promote his marvellous new book, “Offence: The Hindu Case.”…

Spelling It Out

I’m just back from dinner with a few friends of mine, among them Anand Ramachandran and Salil Tripathi. They…

No More Pockets

Archana Sinha writes in: Nepal has ordered its customs officials to wear pocketless pants, with a view to discouraging…

25 February, 2008

Stealing Panties

Quote of the day:

I have heard stories before about underwear being stolen, but I never thought it would happen to me.

This is from a university student whose panties were among those stolen by a university professor. It’s fairly harmless as fetishes go, especially since the panties were flicked “from a university hostel’s clothes-line,” and none of the victims were actually wearing them at the time—unless they were hung on the clothesline as well, which is unlikely given the logistics involved. I’m not condoning the man’s act—theft is theft, unless the government does it—but I sympathize with the last line of the report:

The lawyer also said that his client was an honourable and kind person who had no intention of causing annoyance to the underwear owners.

(Link via email from Aishwarya.)

Posted by Amit Varma in News

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