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Rushdie to write about his decade of hiding

Booker Award winning Indian-origin novelist Salman Rushdie has said he plans to pen down his experiences of a decade in hiding, after a death fatwa was issued against him by the Iranian clergy. The......

Mohammad Hanif wins first Shakti Bhatt award

What perplexes Pakistani writer Mohammad Hanif, who won the first Shakti Bhatt award beating Booker winner Aravind Adiga, is the unavailability of Indian books and magazines in his country when he......

The Indian connection in the Booker Prize

Aravind Adiga, whose The White Tiger bagged this year's Booker Prize, is the eighth winner of the prestigious award who has an Indian connection. India has been consistently producing award-winning......

Rushdie's Midnight's Children is Best of Booker

Salman Rushdie was named winner of the Best of the Booker award for Midnight's Children, the Man Booker website reported.Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981. It was then chosen as the......

Indra Sinha shortlisted for Man Booker Prize

Indian novelist Indra Sinha is among six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.Sinha has been selected for his novel Animal's People, which is......

HSBC may farm out some IT biz

British banking group HSBC is planning to outsource a part of its IT operations to an Indian company. This, according to the bank major, marks a major culture change for the organisation, which has......

Paul, Bilimoria, Rushdie among UK's richest Asians

Leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul, founder of Cobra Beer Karan Bilimoria and controversial author Salman Rushdie figure in a list of Britain's richest Asians named in a new report, but......

Screenwriter, author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala passes away

Academy Award winning screenwriter and author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 85, passed away at her home in the US on Wednesday.According to her daughter Firoza Jhabvala, she succumbed to a pulmonary......

Chetan Bhagat: Kai Po Che is better than the book

Chetan Bhagat has been many things in his life -- an IIT and IIM graduate, who spent 11 years as an investment banker in Hong Kong, a best selling author ("the biggest-selling English-language......

Mira Nair's challenge in Toronto

Riz Ahmed, who was brilliant as a rich misogynist in the little seen Trishna, is getting more praise for his star-making work in the political thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist, directed by......

Coming up, Indian films at the Toronto Film Festival

Here's a look at the line-up at the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival, coming up in September. Two veteran filmmakers of Indian origin and one comparatively new name will have the......

The book that Barack Obama enjoyed reading

Spanish-born Canadian author Yann Martel first shot to fame with the Life of Pi, which won him the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Almost a decade later, the 300-some page fantasy adventure......

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Q. How many awards are there in your showcase ?
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Q. Is foreign funding so lucrative that its beneficence are still shedding tears for their beloved terrorists who have been executed under the due process of the Indian law?
Vikram: A. 5 oscars, 12 filmfare, 2 nobel, 6 booker.... all duplicate! more

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Q. Which is the highest literary award of the world?
Question Answer: A. Funding from anywhere is lucrative. Such people would even sell off their mothers for money. These people also receive sponsorships from...... more

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Q. Which of these awards is given by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music? The Booker Prize The Whitbread Award The Carnegie Medal The Pulitzer Prize
Question Answer: A. The Pulitzer Prize more

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Web results for Booker Award

Ambitious prizes

The headlines said it all. The Man Booker International Prize had been awarded to Lydia Davis, the American author. But most Indian newspapers in... ...

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130525/commentary-op-ed/commentary/ambitious-prizes

China edge past gritty Indonesia, in semi-finals

Defending champions China had to dig deep to avoid a surprise defeat to Indonesia, winning 3-2 on Thursday in the quarter-finals of the Sudirman... ...

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Hafeez ton shores up Pak in rain-interrupted game

Mohammad Hafeez scored his fifth century in one-day international cricket to put Pakistan in a commanding position in the first match of their... ...

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The Boss Will See You Now

I first heard about Ashokamitran when a friend caught me watching old Tamil film snippets on Jaya Max ( Madura Geetam ). If I was into that sort of... ...

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Short-story writer Davis wins Booker International Prize

US writer Lydia Davis, best known for her unconventionally short stories, on Wednesday claimed the prestigious Man Booker International Prize at a... ...

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Booker Award

News for Booker Award

Rushdie to write about his decade of hiding

Mohammad Hanif wins first Shakti Bhatt award

The Indian connection in the Booker Prize

Rushdie's Midnight's Children is Best of Booker

Indra Sinha shortlisted for Man Booker Prize

HSBC may farm out some IT biz

Paul, Bilimoria, Rushdie among UK's richest Asians

Screenwriter, author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala passes away

Chetan Bhagat: Kai Po Che is better than the book

Mira Nair's challenge in Toronto

Coming up, Indian films at the Toronto Film Festival

The book that Barack Obama enjoyed reading

People speak for booker award

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