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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

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…

08 January, 2009

I finally saw Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi yesterday, and was astonished to find that it was even worse than I’d expected. Shah Rukh Khan’s alleged acting was no surprise to me—he played two absurd caricatures, and hammed furiously. Nor was I surprised by the implausibilities, or how much it dragged, or the melodrama, and so on. No, what stunned me was the scene (spoiler alert) in which the heroine touches her husband’s feet, after realising that she sees God in him. I couldn’t believe they could show a scene like that in a 2008 film. If I was Gauri Khan, I’d totally kick Shah Rukh’s ass.

In contrast, see this girl. Now that’s the spirit.

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