Browse Archives
By Category
By Date
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.
If you're interested, do join the Facebook group for My Friend Sancho
Click here for more about my publisher, Hachette India.
My posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.
Recent entries
This personal essay by me appears in the winter edition of Forbes Life India. I feel the ground sway…
I’m amazed that India hasn’t yet woken up to the fact that Himesh Reshammiya is the new Govinda. I…
If you thought Ponytail’s speech the other day was funny, wait till you see this: Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, former…
The New York Times reports: A video of a dog apparently mourning the death of his owner at a…
Huffington Post reports: Glenn Beck called Hurricane Irene a “blessing” on his Friday radio show, saying it would teach…
28 June, 2007
Everybody deserves a second chance
Reader Ankur Warikoo writes in to tell me about a website he’s started with a colleague of his from ISB, Hyderabad: SecondShaadi.com. It describes itself thus:
SecondShaadi.com is India’s No. 1 site for second marriages. So, whether you are divorced or widowed or someone looking to start late in life, give us a try… and Start a New Life!
I wish them luck, even if I’ll never be using their services. Starting a site like this in India is either foolish or farsighted, and I hope it turns out to be the latter. Anything that enables lonely people to reach out to others like them can only be a good thing—especially when they think life has already passed them by.
Also, and this is a mention I meant to make a month ago, do check out frontFoot, a new section of the networking site, techTribe. FrontFoot aims to let the community take over the role of the recruiter, and share in the rewards as well. (Recruitment 2.0, if you will.) It sounds immensely promising
Posted by Amit Varma in
India |
Miscellaneous
