Kiran Desai

Let Mama preach

Her mother! Daughters of pushy mothers turn out to be more successful, according to a new study. The study claims that a mother’s expectation from her daughter is what decides how successful the latter would be in her...

Cricket: Dileep Premachandran on why India can't yet claim to be worldbeaters

Feet on the ground time: India aren't top dogs yet A team that has not won back-to-back Tests for almost three years needs more consistency and depth before it can truly claim to be the world's best India celebrate victory over...

Revenge of the colonized?

He lives alone at 83, in a house with outdated carpets that looks like it could use the care of the wife he lost six years ago. He told me he had outdated ideas too, though I did not ask. Master Alastair, as he was called by...

Obama tributes from India's most acclaimed women in films

From correspondents in New York, United States, 01:03 PM IST Barack Obama's election as US president is historic not just for Americans but for people the world over, say three of Indian cinema's best known women - Deepa Mehta,...

Hopes for a happy ending: Literary voices on the American Election

Presidents and novelists are storytellers both, but it is a rare day in America when their narratives collide. It nearly happened in 1963, the year Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy hired (at the recommendation of William...

Booker Prize Winner Who Ditched William Morris Signs With Top U.K.-Based Agent

Earlier this week we carried a report from the U.K. press that said Aravind Adiga, author of White Tiger and recent winner of the Man Booker Prize, had abruptly abandoned his relationship with the William Morris Agency. The...

Adiga wins 'God' of agents

London, Oct. 28: Agentless until yesterday, Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga now has the “king of UK literary agents” batting for him — David Godwin. Godwin did not approach Adiga, who parted company in November 2007 — even...

Adiga pens a new plot, focusses on new India again

BETWEEN THE COVERS: Adiga's new novel will be about 'India's social landscape' too. New Delhi: Writer Aravind Adiga will soon release a new novel barely a month after winning the prestigious Booker prize for his book The White...

Adiga pens a new plot, focus new India again

BETWEEN THE COVERS: Adiga's new novel will be about 'India's social landscape' too. New Delhi: Writer Aravind Adiga will soon release a new novel barely a month after winning the prestigious Booker prize for his book The White...

Exclusive: 'Booker Prize is the Holy Grail'

Mumbai-based Aravind Adiga arrived in London last week as one of the six finalists for the Man Booker Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, hoping to meet with the fellow writers and have a great party...