Irish writer takes Booker bookies by surprise

Veteran Irish novelist John Banville brought about one of the biggest literary coup when he took the 50,000 Man Booker Prize for fiction from under the noses of the bookies and the pundits. A 7 to......

Dance bars, yes. Books, no!

Mahesh Kumar would sit quietly, precariously, atop a small pile of books, watching Mumbai go by. I had known him for months by then, and he would recognise me from a distance. When I stopped by his......