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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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Recent entries
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12 September, 2007
Chai-Paani For God
Nepal’s state-run airline has confirmed that it sacrificed two goats to appease a Hindu god, following technical problems with one of its aircraft.
Nepal Airlines said the animals were slaughtered in front of the plane - a Boeing 757 - at Kathmandu airport.[...] “The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights,” senior airline official Raju KC was quoted as saying by Reuters.
This convinces me that India is right in having an all-powerful state and a large bureaucracy—after all, God Herself is clearly a bureaucrat. Why else would She need bribes like this?
(Link via separate emails from Sanjeev Naik, Manish Manke, Silk-list and Raoul Jetley.)
PS: Another report informs us that the photographer who took pictures “was detained for hours for taking photographs in a restricted area.” God was presumably too busy feasting on the goats to punish the photographer Herself.
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