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    Destiny Half a Life Commodities and Capabilities A House for Mr. Biswas Magic Seeds Inequality Re-examined Equality of Capacity Books by Indian Booker Prize Winning Authors Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children Arundhati Roy God of Small Things Arvind Adiga The White Tiger Satanic Verses Broken Republic Last Man in Tower Shame The End of Imagination The Moor’s Last Sigh Power Politics The Algebra of Infinite Justice Fury The Enchantress of Florence

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    A.(M.Sc Psy‚Ph.D.) 1 About the Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala‚ (7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was aGerman-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist‚ short story writer and two-time AcademyAward-winning screenwriter. Jhabvala wrote a dozen novels‚23 screenplays and eight collections of short stories. She isthe only person to have won both a Booker Prize and anOscar. Jhabvala lived in India for 24 years from 1951. Jhabvalamoved to New York in 1975 and lived there until her death in2013

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    Practice For Perfection

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    Suzanna Arundhati Roy[1] (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author and political activist who is best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes. Roy ’s novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. Contents   [hide]  1 Early life and background 2 Career 2.1 Literary career 2.2 Early career: screenplays 2.3 The God of Small Things 2.4 Later career

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    XLRI(HR)Batch of 2013-2015: the xlri interview I cam across ‚ this guy really worked hard ‚ here is his interview: How I went about the interview preparation. 7 April 2013 At the outset‚I am going to warn you that this post is going to be long and tedious.I am writing this piece not for my personal satisfaction‚but for thousands of aspirants who are mediocre like me;who ruined their high school/graduation academics‚and did not achieve anything significant in last 20 odd years of existence

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    show’s reporters Mike Wallace and Morley Safer obtain these answers by infusing their personality‚ opinions‚ and curiosities on issues and forcing interviewees to step out of their comfort zones when answering their questions. Kazuo Ishiguro is a man who understands the difficulty of being an interviewee. After writing many award winning novels such as The Remains of the Sanfield 2 Day and Never Let Me Go‚ Ishiguro said in an interview with Cynthia Wong‚ “It’s almost impossible to find the energy

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    Creations: The Dark Room‚ Malgudi Days‚ Talkative Man‚ The English Teacher. * Kiran Desai: Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and educated in India‚ England‚ and the United States. She studied creative writing at Columbia University‚ where she was the 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:

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    The Role of the Media

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    great readership. The advent of the electronic media has never threatened its existence. Some of the journalists‚ in fact‚ enjoy great fan-following and are respected for their work. Indians from the literacy circles have got the Nobel Prize‚ the Man Booker Prize and have won the other accolades. Some people think that the banning of books like ‘The Satanic Verses’‚ by Salman Rushdie‚ ‘Lajja ’ by Taslima Nasreen may throttle the freedom of

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    Aravind Adiga is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel‚ The White Tiger‚ won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He was born in Madras on 23rd October 1974. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize‚ after Salaman Rushdie‚ Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.He began his journalistic career as a financial journalist‚ interning at the Financial Times. He was subsequently hired by TIME‚ where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance. During his

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    Who vs Whom

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    dependent clause. When the pronoun is the subject of the dependent clause being introduced‚ use who. When the pronoun is the object‚ use whom. For example‚ She is the only person in the town who stood up against injustice. The winner of the Man Booker prize was not the author whom I expected. EDIT More Examples Research has shown that women who get pregnant when teenagers earn substantially less money over their lifetime than those for whom pregnancy does not occur

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    with either of his earlier books. Life of Pi‚ on the other hand‚ became a bestseller upon publication in 2001. It has been translated into more than forty languages and has won several prestigious awards‚ including the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction‚ the Man Booker Prize‚ and the French Le Combat de Livres. The film version directed by Ang Lee premiered in 2012‚ garnering eleven Academy Award nominations and winning in four categories‚ including Best Director. The outer frame of the story is narrated

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