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| Climategate prophet Pachauri pens porno plodder |
| 2010-01-31 |
| As the UN's climate change chief, Dr Rajendra Pachauri has spent his career writing only the driest of academic articles. But the latest offering from the chairman of the UN's climate change panel is an altogether racier tome. Some might even suggest Dr Pachauri's first novel is frankly smutty. Return to Almora, published in Dr Pachauri's native India earlier this month, tells the story of Sanjay Nath, an academic in his 60s reminiscing on his "spiritual journey" through India, Peru and the US. On the way he encounters, among others, Shirley MacLaine, the actress, who appears as a character in the book. While relations between Sanjay and MacLaine remain platonic, he enjoys sex – a lot of sex – with a lot of women. In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists and world leaders with whom he mixes, he details sexual encounter after sexual encounter. The book, which makes reference to the Kama Sutra, starts promisingly enough as it tells the story of a climate expert with a lament for the denuded mountain slopes of Nainital, in northern India, where deforestation by the timber mafia and politicians has "endangered the fragile ecosystem". But talk of "denuding" is a clue of what is to come. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #3 Sleezegate! |
| Posted by: KBK 2010-01-31 18:57 |
| #2 "In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock" That ain't what's made him a laughing-stock.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-31 10:11 |
| #1 Since he already has a Nobel Prize under his belt, he must now be angling for this august literary prize. |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-01-31 09:30 |