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He was educated at cambridge university and was appointed director of the financial timess creative business section in 2005. July 2006 shaun manning fiction londonstani by gautum malkani. It tells the story of hardjit, ravi, amit and jas, four mates who bum around the suburbs of hounslow in a bmw supplementing their income with a. He is the main character of the novel and lives in hounslow, a london neighborhood.
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