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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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Recent entries
This personal essay by me appears in the winter edition of Forbes Life India. I feel the ground sway…
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If you thought Ponytail’s speech the other day was funny, wait till you see this: Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, former…
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05 August, 2007
Shamita Shetty likes papayas
If anyone denies that the following excerpt is newsworthy, I will sit on him or her. Here goes:
Shamita ki sexiness ka raaz kya hain?
If a bee from Cash’s unit is to be believed, it is papayas or papitas as we call them.
One fine day, Shamita wanted papitas. Not one. Not five. Not ten, but 21 of them!
Since the shooting was in Cape Town and not in Film City, spot boys, assistant directors and production assistants went scurrying around the South African city.
After much heartburn, the crew finally found 21 papayas and gave it to madam. My bee has no idea what Shamita did with them. Meanwhile, mama Shetty, who was also at the shoot, asked for sambar powder one day. The action on the sets was ditto.
“The action on the sets was ditto,” it seems! Somebody please explain why I want to wrap barbed wire around myself.
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