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India-born novelist Kiran Desai's bestseller novel The Inheritance of Loss has bagged yet another literary honour -- the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
Nearly two months after her The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker Prize, the Indian community in New York finally celebrated Kiran Desai's awesome achievement.
Judges for the 30,000 pound Orange award broke with a 39-year unspoken convention by choosing this year's Man Booker and Costa Prize winning books -- Desai's novel and Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves -- on their long-list of 20.
Desai's book, which has won rave reviews, has already been awarded the 2006 Man Brooker Prize. The Nepalese movement for an independent state is the tumultuous backdrop for 36-year-old Desai's richly textured book.
Two Booker prize winners Kiran Desai and Salman Rushdie will be the major attractions of 2007's 10-day Jaipur Heritage International Festival, which begins on January 13.
For Kiran Desai, her 70-year-old mother is much than an inspiration and mentor. It is her mother's humanity and example as a writer without vanity that have made the biggest difference in Kiran's life.
As a penniless writer in Brooklyn, Desai shared a small apartment with a former clown, a fashion designer and a waitress.
Desai lived in India until the age of 15, when she moved to England to continue her education, and currently lives in the US.
'Our fractured world has been embroiled in wars and hatred, and many sessions reflect these concerns.'
The Indian Diaspora has been able to carve a niche in their adopted countries as a result of their talent, perseverance and hardworking nature, asserts Rup Narayan Das.
'I don't feel like going back to India, to the old Delhi that I grew up in. Because the place doesn't exist anymore.'
As he struggles in hospital, I wonder why anyone, especially someone who was not even born when The Satanic Verses was published, would want to harm a 75-year old man and a literary treasure, wonders Subhash K Jha.
Six weeks after winning the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai is hardly out of the news.
Six American Indian were awarded the Eliis Island Medal of Honour. The Award celebrates the immigrant experience in the United States.
Get Ahead reader Srinath Sridhar tells us a little about his favourite writers and books.
Aravind Adiga has won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 for his debut novel The White Tiger.
The long list has been dominated by the 'Davids' - a new generation of novelists who have yet to become household names.
Kiran Desai on being a global celebrity.
Kiran Desai said she owed a profound debt to her mother, Anita Desai.
Kiran Desai answers these and other questions with the careful prose of her second novel.
'I miss it terribly now that I am back in New York,' says novelist Kiran Desai.
Over 300 eminent personalities from the creative and scholarly community of India, including actor Naseeruddin Shah, filmmaker Mira Nair, vocalist TM Krishna, author Amitav Ghosh and historian Romila Thapar have expressed solidarity with the students and others protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens. Writers Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, actors Ratna Patak Shah, Jaaved Jafferi, Nandita Das, Lillete Dubey, sociologist Ashis Nandy, activists Sohail Hashmi and Shabnam Hashmi were also among the signatories.
About 3,500 jurists, academics, actors, artistes, writers and people from other walks of life called the registration of the FIR against The Wire's founding editor an attack on press freedom.
Sachin Tendulkar said the whole idea behind his writing a letter to world boxing body AIBA was to save woman boxer L Sarita Devi's career from ending abruptly after the Asian Games controversy in Incheon.
The country's oldest book awards saw some interesting wins.
The star was chosen to deliver the Penguin Annual Lecture.
Nikhil Lakshman remembers the times he spent with the legendary writer who passed into the ages six days before his 86th birthday.
Mark Tully on the India he loves.
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