Atlantic Books

Before I even knew the word ‘gay,’ I knew I was gay.

I guess this is why Catholics teach that suicide is a sin. They were running out of priests.

They’re so yesterday.
I am tomorrow.

I am a self-taught entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay.

About three years ago, when I became, briefly, a person of national importance owing to an act of entrepreneurship, a poster with my face on it found its way to every post office, railway station, and police station in this country.

Age: Between 25 and 35. Complexion: Blackish. Face: Oval. Height: Five feet four inches estimated. Build: Thin, Small.

came home that day and told my father that the schoolteacher had given me a new name. He shrugged. ‘If it’s what he wants, then we’ll call you that.’
So I was Balram from then on.

Balram Halwai alias MUNNA…

Please understand, Your Excellency, that India is two countries in one: an India of Light, and an India of Darkness.