Chennai has to be on my list of all-time favourite cities: lush green, billboard-free and architecture that takes your breath away. And as stop two on the Geek Nation tour of India, it gave me a welcome I didn't expect. The Chennai Superkings were playing in a big IPL match on Friday night and yet we managed to pack out the room for the book launch, above. The comments were fabulous and the questions were clever. I was also very lucky to be interviewed for an hour on India's only radio book show on 104.8FM ChennaiLive and also for the books show on NDTV Hindu (tune in on Sunday for this one, and that's me with the lovely presenter Anuradha Ananth belo
w, or watch the video on YouTube).On Saturday night I spoke to the members of the Madras Club, which is a beautiful old building next to the river. Sadly, the microphones made me sound like a robot and the mosquitoes took full advantage of my bare ankles. Other than that, the cheese toast was great and the club gave me a book voucher.
There have been some lovely reviews of Geek Nation out this week too, in The Sunday Indian and Mumbai Boss. Next stop is Kolkata. If you happen to be in the vicinity of the Birla Planetarium on Wednesday evening at 6.30pm then you can hear more about the book and meet little ole me.
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