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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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Click here for more about my publisher, Hachette India.
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…
27 February, 2008
Stuff White People Like
I’d written in a column last week about how the internet has no entry barriers and is meritocratic, and how if a new blog is good, it will gain the readership it deserves on word of mouth alone. Well, here’s a blog that illustrates just that: Stuff White People Like.
The blog began about six weeks ago, and already has about 4 million hits. That’s no surprise—it contains satire and social observation of the highest quality, and I’ll be very surprised if a lucrative book deal doesn’t come its way soon. Just scroll through some of those entries, it’s super stuff.
More dope: Here’s an LA Times piece on it, and here’s an interview of the author, Christian Lander.
(Link via email from Sruthijith.)
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