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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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Click here for more about my publisher, Hachette India.
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…
09 July, 2007
Naughtiest quiz question ever
What is the length of Voldemort’s wand?
That’s from the Harry Potter quiz here. So now we know why young lads like the series so much.
The wand, for the record, is 13.5 inches. “She shrieked when he unveiled his wand, fearful of what it would do to her—and, yet, anxious to be impaled upon it. She felt like a tart—and it felt good!”
(Link via email from Gautam John, who, searching for more, also found this.
And for some propah quiz questions, there’s always this.)
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