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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…
05 October, 2009
Like a Government Department
In an excellent column, Vir Sanghvi looks at all the reasons why Air India is run so badly. To sum it up:
If you run your country’s flag carrier like a government department, a decline is inevitable.
His remedy, which flows naturally from this, is to privatize Air India. I agree with him. But here’s a question:
If Air India should be privatized because it is run like a government department, what about government departments?
Posted by Amit Varma in
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