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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…
04 August, 2007
Rakhi Sawant and Gandhigiri
WTF headline of the day:
“I’m a true Gandhian: Rakhi Sawant.”
A choice excerpt:
On being asked how her item dance is on the line of Gandhian principles, she says, “Item dance is not a crime. It’s an art and I pursue it with a vanity. it’s takes a lot of hard work to perform. Gandhiji also believed in working hard.”
The article also has a picture of her in nothing but a loin cloth.
Ok, fine, it doesn’t, I made that last bit up. Er, are you still here?
(Link via email from reader BVN.
More on Rakhi: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And some posts on Bigg Boss: 1, 2, 3, 4.)
Posted by Amit Varma in
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