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    cultural background‚ Kiran Desai‚ daughter of the author Anita Desai is a born story-teller. Her first novel‚ Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998)‚ is a fresh look at life in the sleepy provincial town of Shahkot in India. At 35 years old‚ Desai is the youngest woman ever to win the prize and was already highly acclaimed in literary circles for her first novel ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’ which won a Betty Trask award [2] when it was published in 1998. She spent eight years writing her second

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    Kiran Desai is the daughter of Indian author‚ herself short-listed for Booker Prize on three occations. Her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was published in 1998 and won the Betty Trask Award was given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age thirty five. Her second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) was widely praised by many critics around the world such as‚ Asia‚ Europe and United States. And also she was awarded

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    Indo-Anglian Authors It’s the same Indian Curry – the spices are Indian‚ the flavours remain rural and the colours are still rich and earthy‚ except for the fact that it is savoured with a different spoon. That is Indo-Anglian literature or English literature penned by an Indian author. With the sudden surge of writers in this genre‚ its history is very recent‚ mostly limited to the last two centuries. As a category it owes its roots to the post-colonial era and today with almost three Nobel laureates

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    Empire English Books - Indian Writers Important English Titles by Indian Authors Name of the Book Author Train to Pakistan Khuswant Singh Autobiography of an unknown Indian Nirad C Chaudhary Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Name of the Book Coolie The Guide Swami and his friends Kanthapura Serpent and the rope Cry‚ the peacock The Artist of Disappearance The Village by the Sea Continent of Circe Midnight’s Children Satanic Verses A Suitable

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    Talk about your hometown The first memory of my home town is a small peaceful town with reasonable population encircled by hills and mountains‚ a road slithering on the North East Mountains to join it to Peshawar. I used to watch traffic lights on this road at night. The sight of traffic lights on that road fascinated me and I took them for fire worms chasing each other. The sound of water stream called Kohat Toi‚ coming from the North West out skirt of city‚ and howling of wolves which scared

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    to buy the birds and give him some money. The narrator found him to be a dweller of Kutch‚ not far from Hyderabad Sind. The son of the narrator took the cage and his heart was dancing with joy. He was feeding the parrots with a green chili and ripe guava. While feeding‚ the narrator’s hand was nipped by the birds. She was angry and expressed her anger for the imprisoned birds. Her son could understand her words and he was pleading with his little gestures. The narrator would have opened the door

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    Abitsuélas: n. White beans‚ white-seeded bean; usually dried navy bean‚ pea bean common bean - any of numerous beans eaten either fresh or dried. Abokado: n. Avocado‚ used in native medicine against diarrhea and wounds. kaabokaduan n. avocado orchard. Abuno: n. Fertilizer; dung (ganagan); agabuno‚ abunuan. v. to fertilize; pagabuno. v. to use as fertilizer. [Tag. patabâ] Anaaw: Palm; n. a kind of tall palm‚ livistona rotundifolia. Inanaawan. n. a kind of hat made with anaaw leaves. kaanaawan

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    Food Processing & Technology Balaswamy et al.‚ J Food Process Technol 2011‚ 2:3 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2157-7110.1000116 Research Article Open Access Preparation of Sour Grape (Vitis Vinifera) Beverages and Evaluation of their Storage Stability Karakala Balaswamy‚ Pamidighantam Prabhakara Rao‚ Allani Nagender and Akula Satyanarayana* Central Food Technological Research Institute (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)‚ Resource Centre‚ Habshiguda‚ Uppal Road‚ Hyderabad-500

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    recipient of a Woolrich fellowship. Her work has appeared in "The New Yorker" and Salman Rushdie’s anthology Mirrorwork: Fifty Years of Indian Writing. In 2006 Desai won the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss. Creations: Hullabaloo in Guava Orchard‚ Winqsb‚ the Inheritance of Loss. * Salman Rushdie: Salman Rushdie is a world renowned novelist and essayist. He was born on June 19‚ 1947 to Anis Ahmed Rushdie‚ a lawyer turned businessman‚ and Negin Bhatt‚ a teacher. Salman Rushdie

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