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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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Recent entries
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Daniel Pepper of CMS has a worrying story up on how RTI activists in India are increasingly facing a…
This sentence says so much about the level of parliamentary debate in India today: Finally, marshals were called in…
14 November, 2007
The Hyper-Masculine Norman Mailer
Just because a man’s dead is no reason to think well of him. Joan Smith writes in the Guardian:
Mailer did not actually kill any of his wives (unlike the French philosopher Louis Althusser, who strangled his), but he stabbed his second wife twice in the neck and his fourth accused him of beating her. His fascination with hyper-masculinity drew him to boxing; it also resulted in tragedy when Mailer was instrumental in securing the release of a convicted killer, Jack Abbott, who then stabbed a waiter to death.
Yes, the Jack Abbott matter was quite disgraceful, a classic case of self delusion (on Mailer’s part). Did a similar self-delusion perhaps afflict Mailer’s third wife? Famous writers can get away with anything, it would seem…
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