BJP lashes out at Arundhati Roy for referring to Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal as a prisoner-of-war.
Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri - Kiran Desai has now joined the league of great Indian authors.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/the-age-of-the-indian-author/23769-3.html
Arundhati Roy has rejected the award in a single-page fax message, Akademi Secretary K Sachidanandan said.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/arundhati-rejects-akademi-award/3741-8.html
The book of political essays written between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2003, was the jury's "unanimous" choice."
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/sahitya-akademi-for-arundhati-roy/3525-8.html
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