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    The black kurta is famous

    May 31st, 2010

    (Note: Youtube video has now been obtained.)

    Sunil Sethi and I recently chatted about Dork and a bunch of other things on NDTV’s Just Books show.

    The outcomes of this were threefold:

    1. I appeared on TV. This has made many people on both sides of the family very happy indeed. Kapoors and Vadukuts from Agra to Alleppey were overjoyed. The in-laws are finally beginning to reconcile with my career decisions.

    2. I got to meet Sunil Sethi. And listen to him talk about growing up in Delhi as a lover of books. We recorded for maybe 12 minutes. And then stood around chatting for around a couple of hours.

    3. I had no idea there was an Olive restaurant near the Qutub. Two thumbs up.

    And this is the video.

    Youtube:

    NDTV: (full show including Aishwarya Rai and Karan Bajaj sequences)

    I know I know. I laugh too much. Sigh.

    A coworker said I looked “eerily unfamiliar” in the video. Do I?

    P.S. Just noticed. It says “Author ‘Dork’”. Ugh.

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    The book is nigh. Dork cometh. Full updates.

    December 6th, 2009

    For the last several months Whatay.com has been suffering silently. Why? Because Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese has been the cynosure of my non-office creative pursuits. Dork, as I have begun to refer to it lovingly, is the book.

    The book.Yes. High fives all round.

    Dork was the thing I referred to sheepishly when people asked what I’d been doing with this writing business for the last four years. “Where is your book dude?” blog readers would ask. I’d squirm and hem and haw impatiently.

    You see this publishing business is slow. Slow and nerve wracking. Slow and nerve wracking and soul-draining. But it is awesome when it happens.

    And now that the book is at advanced stage of completion, I think it is time we had a long talk. Sit down. Espresso? Good.
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