The launch of Shoaib Akhtar’s book Controversially Yours had to be cancelled in Mumbai. The proverbial ‘Marathi manus’ could not take the fact that a few words of criticism about their living deity, Sachin Tendulkar, had poured forth from cricket’s biggest mouth. So after protests, threats and excellent publicity for what is, all told, a […]
Author Archives: Avirook Sen
The writer’s first book, Looking For America, has been published by Harper Collins India. He is a former editor of the Hindustan Times’ Mumbai edition
avirook.sen@tribune.com.pk
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Let’s hang Afzal Guru — II
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Let’s hang Afzal Guru — I
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Quotas for Indian Muslims?
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Ads that subtract
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Home truths
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Arrival of the neo-Gandhian
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India’s cricket commentators
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