Word: aravind
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...first thing is to find a bank I can put it in.' ARAVIND ADIGA, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, The White Tiger, on what he'll do with the $87,000 in prize money...
...TIME published planet Earth: An Illustrated History, a captivating visual journey of the world's sciences and unending beauty. Earth is for the living, said Jefferson, and this book is for you. And speaking of books, congratulations to TIME contributor and former correspondent Aravind Adiga, whose astonishing first novel about India, The White Tiger, won this year's Man Booker Prize...
...Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday night with his novel, The White Tiger, joining a pantheon of past Booker winners that includes such literary giants as V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Iris Murdoch, Kingsley Amis and Salman Rushdie. It was a remarkable victory for Adiga, a 33-year-old first-time novelist who spent part of his youth in the Indian city of Mangalore and now lives in Bombay. As an old friend of his, I was sitting at the table with Adiga in London's Guildhall when he won, surrounded by people from his U.K. publishing house...
...Aravind Adiga, author of the novel The White Tiger, lives in Mumbai
...Beliefs I enjoyed Aravind Adiga's letter "Mystical Mischief" but I cannot decide whether he gets it or not [July 28]! I do not believe in the mumbo jumbo of psychic readings and palmistry, but does he not see that the West now realizes science does not have all the answers? I hope that as India embraces science and all its benefits it does not develop a "consciousness that their old beliefs are antiquated and will pass." That, I am sure, would be a terrible mistake. Thomas G. Lamont, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND...