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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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My posts on India Uncut about My Friend Sancho can be found here.
Recent entries
Check out this piece by Shikha Dalmia on the role that market forces play in perpetuating the caste system.…
Our right-wing lunatics are so funny sometimes that it’s hard to hate them. Balbir Punj has a bizarre (but…
Having resumed blogging, it was natural for me to head over to the ToI site for the potential double…
The Hindustan Times reports that two Karnataka ministers were caught watching pornographic videos “when the house was in session.”…
This personal essay by me appears in the winter edition of Forbes Life India. I feel the ground sway…
08 August, 2007
If Harry Potter Was A Hindi Film
Navin of BasKya.com has a number of interesting Bollywoodised plot points from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Here’s one:
#6. Harry, Ron and Hermione are being chased by death eaters and are in danger of being captured. They use the polyjuice potion to convert into Lara Dutta, Mallika Sherawat and Rakhi Sawant and do an item number until the death eaters leave.
I especially like #1, which reminded me of Sholay. And the update with Mosilager‘s suggestion, with Nagini’s melodrama, is also immensely viable.
Speaking of Mosilager, he has a post on how the Harry Potter series would be had it been written by writers other than JK Rowling. The Enid Blyton one is particularly excellent.
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