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AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories From India By Salman Rushdie, Siddhartha Deb, Kiran Desai, Nikita Lawani, Vikram Seth, et. al. Anchor Books...
...chance to work with them and watch them grow,” Shah said. “I hope that they continue to remember that we have such a diverse set of members from different backgrounds.” Other newly-elected officers for the 2007-2008 year include Kiran N. Bhat ’10 as treasurer, Russell F. Rennie ’10 as academic and political chair, Amrapali Maitra ’10 as cultural chair, Joseph G. Thumpasery ’10 as social chair, Ria S. Tobaccowala ’10 as outreach chair, Visali...
...intensely personal.” About 20 students attended the talk, asking the authors for advice on how to become a writer in the face of societal pressures to pursue professional careers. Recently, the experiences of Indian immigrants have become a hot topic in literature. Last year Kiran Desai’s “The Inheritance of Loss” won the Booker Prize, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Last month, a film based on Lahiri’s novel...
...literary awards. Three times the renowned Indian novelist has been a finalist for the MAN Booker Prize for fiction, and three times she's failed to win it. But last week, says Desai, the stress was worse than ever?because this time, the finalist was her daughter Kiran. Roused by her sister-in-law at 5 a.m. on Oct. 11, Anita turned on the television to see that Kiran, at age 35, had become the youngest woman ever to win the Booker. "I wanted it so much for her," says Anita, speaking from the family's residence in New Delhi...
...sharp sting of success. Last week Turkey was in the embarrassing position of having native son ORHAN PAMUK win the Nobel Prize for literature within a year of charging him with insulting Turkish identity. Critics also made much of Indian-born novelist KIRAN DESAI winning Britain's Man Booker Prize after her mum was short-listed three times for the $93,000 award. But the fuss is over. Everyone can go back to ignoring serious authors again...