Corporate honcho Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India dominates non-fiction this week while Aravind Adiga's White Tiger continues to roar on the top two slots in the fiction category of bestsellers. That is something for India to smile about as terror has sapped away enthusiasm.
Writer's latest novel Between the Assassinations out in November.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/adiga-pens-a-new-plot-focusses-on-new-india-again/76848-19.html
William Morris Agency helped him win the 50,000-pound award.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/booker-in-pocket-aravind-adiga-sacks-agent/76764-19.html
Is the written word still powerful in the age of TV? Face the Nation discusses.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ftn-cant-write-off-books-even-in-the-age-of-tv/75927-19.html
Judges say Adiga's book has maximum support.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/aravind-adiga-wins-man-booker-prize-for-the-white-tiger/75870-19.html
Adiga faced competition from another veteran Indian author Amitav Ghosh.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/aravind-adigas-the-white-tiger-wins-booker--wish-him/75837-19.html
Aravind Adiga and Amitav Ghosh amongst the forerunners.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/booker-prize-to-be-announced-today-2-indians-in-row/75773-19.html
He feels that getting two Booker prizes in one year is unlikely.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/rushdie-talks-about-books-politics-and-lovelife/74002-19.html
Big names like Salman Rushdie and Joseph O' Neill were left out.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/adiga-ghosh-in-man-booker-shortlist-rushdie-omitted/73309-19.html
The winner's name will be announced on October 14.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/two-indian-writers-in-man-booker-prize-shortlist/73239-3.html
Aravind Adiga and Amitav Ghosh have made it to the shortlist.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/two-indian-authors-in-man-booker-prize-shortlist/73232-19.html
Ghosh has been shortlisted for his widely-acclaimed Sea of Poppies.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ghosh-adiga-shortlisted-for-man-booker-prize/73208-19.html
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