T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Launch my ire

After all, Rs 500 - which is usually around what the books cost - for a meal with unlimited scotch is not a bad deal. Or even for unlimited tea, coffee, biscuits, sandwiches and pakodas, for that matter

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For some reason I receive an invitation to attend a "book launch" about twice a month. In the last seven years, I have been to just three because the books were written by very good friends. Later, I asked each of them, two of whom are very shy and retiring sort of men, why they had agreed to the "launch''. They said the publisher had harassed them to have one, to the point of molestation. One of them, at least, had received a tidy advance, so I suppose it made sense for the publisher to try and promote the book. After all, the advance - or as much of it as ...

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T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Launch my ire