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Jamal Mecklai has been writing for several decades. He penned numerous short stories and even completed a novel in the early 1980s while living in New York. Although he loved to write, it was never his main focus. His true passion was trying to change the world. Perhaps the quality of his early writing reflected this. Despite making a few half-hearted attempts to get his work published at the time, he was largely unsuccessful. He returned to India in 1985 and has since been running a financial consulting business. Through his work, he wrote extensively, producing weekly analyses that gained a Read More...
Jamal Mecklai has been writing for several decades. He penned numerous short stories and even completed a novel in the early 1980s while living in New York. Although he loved to write, it was never his main focus. His true passion was trying to change the world. Perhaps the quality of his early writing reflected this. Despite making a few half-hearted attempts to get his work published at the time, he was largely unsuccessful.
He returned to India in 1985 and has since been running a financial consulting business. Through his work, he wrote extensively, producing weekly analyses that gained a loyal following. His columns were regularly published in major newspapers such as The Economic Times, Business Standard, The Financial Express, and others.
In the late 1980s, he also wrote a few short stories featuring Shri Vindaloo, a grand and wonderful pig from Goa, who made a smiling appearance in them. In 2024, Jamal resurrected one of his old stories, Love in Leningrad, which truly came to life when Shri Vindaloo stepped in as the protagonist. He revised some of the earlier stories to create a sense of continuity and then continued developing new adventures—ones Shri Vindaloo whispered to him, perhaps.
And, of course, a love story began to unfold
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Love and joy are what everybody desires. And, despite a huge amount of evidence suggesting the contrary, love and joy actually represent the natural state. The story shows that what it takes to bring these desires to fruition is silliness, the most undervalued of all attributes.
Shri Vindaloo is a grand and wonderful pig who lives in Goa. He loves everyone he meets and, of course, everyone loves him back, including many, many lady pigs who he follows (s
Love and joy are what everybody desires. And, despite a huge amount of evidence suggesting the contrary, love and joy actually represent the natural state. The story shows that what it takes to bring these desires to fruition is silliness, the most undervalued of all attributes.
Shri Vindaloo is a grand and wonderful pig who lives in Goa. He loves everyone he meets and, of course, everyone loves him back, including many, many lady pigs who he follows (sometimes), meets (sometimes) and loves (all the time). His adventures in the book took him back and forth between Goa and Leningrad, New York, California, Mexico, New Orleans and Las Vegas.
And through all this, of course, a love story began to unfold.
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