New Delhi: The year 2011 saw a lot on the writing front but prominent writers like Aravind Adiga, Tabish Khair and Manu Joseph, who were also reading a lot. "I've enjoyed "The Essential Tagore," an anthology published by the Harvard University Press, which has selections from Tagore's essays, poems, and plays. The novelist Amit Chaudhuri has written an excellent preface to this book," says Adiga. The 2008 Booker prize winner...
07:37 PM, Dec 28, 2011
New Delhi: Stepping into the soul of India is not easy for a foreign writer; the journey needs more than mere love for the country. The process requires an identification with history, facts at fingertips and an uncanny nose for immediate socio-political contexts, show landmark books written over the years. When Belgian corporate executive-cum historian Dirk Collier decided to walk into the mind of 16th century Muslim visionary, emperor Akbar,...
03:28 PM, Aug 18, 2011
Vishram Society is a middle class building. Once pink, now a rainwater-stained, fungus-licked grey, surrounded by mangroves and malarial clouds in Vakola - a cluster of ambiguous dots that cling polyp-like to the underside of the domestic airport. It is home to respectable middle class people - a retired accountant, a social worker, a real-estate broker, a cyber caf owner. And an old teacher (who wants nothing. Isn't that dangerous?...
06:37 PM, Jul 14, 2011
June will be a big bang month for English fiction from Indian writers with global reputations. If you're compiling your summer reading list, make sure you include what promises to be an awesome twosome: Amitav Ghosh's 'River of Smoke', the second novel in the Ibis Trilogy. And Aravind Adiga's 'Last Man in Tower'. Both carry a raft of expectations with them, and chances are readers won't be disappointed by either....
08:12 PM, May 11, 2011
The long list for the leading literary award includes 13 books. ...
08:14 AM, Jul 29, 2009
Nilekani is a respected name in corporate world, Adiga's got a Booker. ...
11:04 AM, Dec 05, 2008
Writer's latest novel
Between the Assassinations out in November. ...
03:25 PM, Oct 27, 2008
William Morris Agency helped him win the 50,000-pound award. ...
10:23 AM, Oct 26, 2008
Is the written word still powerful in the age of TV?
Face the Nation discusses. ...
07:32 AM, Oct 16, 2008
Judges say Adiga's book has maximum support. ...
02:08 PM, Oct 15, 2008
Adiga faced competition from another veteran Indian author Amitav Ghosh. ...
03:18 AM, Oct 15, 2008
Aravind Adiga and Amitav Ghosh amongst the forerunners. ...
10:05 AM, Oct 14, 2008
The winner's name will be announced on October 14. ...
01:45 AM, Sep 10, 2008
Ghosh has been shortlisted for his widely-acclaimed
Sea of Poppies. ...
05:37 PM, Sep 09, 2008
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