While on the subject of #JerryPinto, and The Education of Yuri, there are couple of instances of casual, almost facile, deconstruction of #Bollywood movies - incidentally my earliest memories of Pinto's writings from TOI's Sunday Times, involve his total decimation of the culture of conformity being pushed but the two biggest hits of the time, DDLJ askst HAHK - through his character's dialogs. Delightful book. #books #BookExcerpts

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A while back i had a poll about people having read Shakespeare. I have read none of his plays. A lot of my Indian friends were surprised since they assumed that is have at least read some Shakespeare in school. As it happens, state boards, at least vernacular, don't have them in curriculum. A few days later found this in #JerryPinto's The Education of Yuri.

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