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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

Recent entries

The Empire Strikes Back

Daniel Pepper of CMS has a worrying story up on how RTI activists in India are increasingly facing a…

When the Marshalls Go Marching In

This sentence says so much about the level of parliamentary debate in India today: Finally, marshals were called in…

A Room in Your Head

The quote of the day comes from a post by Roger Ebert: Resentment is allowing someone to live rent-free…

The Philosophical Cow

Alex Tabarrok writes: Suppose that you are a cow philosopher contemplating the welfare of cows.  In the world today…

A Complex and Dynamic Taste

[EWWW POST ALERT] Reader Deepthi B sends me a link to a book named “Natural Harvest - A Collection…

10 June, 2009

The Creaking Fan

It’s news when a rich industrialist’s wife spends a night in jail like this:

In the barrack, Sheetal [Mafatlal] was made to sleep on a thin, prickly coir mattress with around 50 hardcore criminals and a swarm of mosquitoes for company.

The creaking fan overhead, jail sources say, moves too slowly to beat the collective heat of bodies and the stench around, thanks to gutkha-chewing undertrials.

But it’s not news when other undertrials, innocent until proven guilty, have to spend nights, even weeks, months, perhaps years in such conditions. That’s the real scandal, but we take it for granted, we know the system’s broken. But when Mrs Mafatlal has to spend a night in such conditions, going chheee in a prison cell instead of mua at a party, that’s newsworthy. See now.

Posted by Amit Varma in India | Journalism | Media | News | WTF

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