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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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15 March, 2007
The Big Wow?
We are informed of the possibility that “consciousness exists apart from the purely mechanistic or biological workings of our temporal bodies.”
What a drag.
(Link via email from Quizman.)
Posted at 11:12 PM by Amit Varma in
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The Khan Academy
This Salman Khan deserves to be called a hero. Terrific educational videos. (Via Prashant.)
Sow No Panic
Elisabeth Rosenthal has some good Swine-Flu advice. (Via Griff.)
By Amit Varma in Miscellaneous
This Video Hurts the Sentiments of Hindu’s [sic] Across the World
Sita Sings the Blues: The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told
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The Hard Edges of Modern Lives
Dev.D doesn't flinch from depicting the individual’s downward spiral
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
Bombastic Little Creep
Question by Amit Varma
This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?