About the Book: Fragments of My Ruin: A Life
A RIB-TICKLING MEMOIR BY FARRUKH DHONDY, TELEVISION CELEBRITY, WRITER, UNABASHED
LEFTIST AND HOME-GROWN PARSI BOY
Farrukh Dhondys stories about his friendships would themselves fill a book. From
Charles Sobhraj to V.S. Naipaul, to his first wife Mala Sen, who wrote The
Bandit Queen, Dhondys extensive network of acquaintances and relationships
became material for his fiction. Bombay Duck, Poona Company and later novels
were iconic recreations of early life in Pune and Mumbai, and he went on to be
counted among the pioneering writers in English in India. In London, he became a
powerful and well-known figure as the creative