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...“I anticipate the next couple of years will see a sharp improvement in corporate profitability,” says Kunal Desai, head of Indian equities at Neptune Investment....
...Abhinav Harlalka, a lawyer at Nishith Desai Associates, said that the authorities could decide to increase the investment limit, if the foreign interest in Indian corporate bonds is sustainable....
...St Aubyn sends up the shenanigans surrounding the Elysian Prize, a fictitious literary award clearly modelled on the Man Booker (for which Mother’s Milk was shortlisted, losing to Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance...
...Four hundred people came in 2007, when the presence of Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai and Suketu Mehta drew in the heavyweight Delhi and Mumbai literati for the first time....
...The conviction that the global rules are fixed in favour of a tiny minority pervades Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006)....
...Desai’s forgettable The Inheritance of Loss....
...He follows in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie (1981), Arundhati Roy (1997) and Kiran Desai (2006). (And lots of people think that Vikram Seth should also have won with “A Suitable Boy” in 1993.)...
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...A narrative by Booker Prize-winning author Kiran Desai stands out among these pieces. She visits the Godavari region of Andhra Pradesh where 26 per cent of sex workers have HIV/Aids....
...(a) Arundhati Roy(b) Vikram Seth(c) Kiran Desai(d) Aravind Adiga 30....
...Last year’s Man Booker Prize was won by Kiran Desai for her novel The Inheritance of Loss. Ms Desai was the youngest female winner of a prize first awarded in 1969....
...She took on holiday the latest Man Booker Prize-winner, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, described by the FT as “marvellous, poised and elegant” – hardly, as MTG pointed out to me, Joanna Trollope...
...Yet Mr Rushdie’s example broke a path for varied writers to rediscover that far-flung history – from the 2006 Booker winner Kiran Desai (who spent teenage years in Britain) to novelists such as Barry Unsworth...
...Sales at Penguin, the consumer book publisher, were up 2 per cent, helped by critical success for titles such as Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance Of Loss ....
...While the novel I happened to be reading on that trip, Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, recounted the downward spiral of an illegal immigrant who bounces from one dead-end job as waiter to another...
...In her marvellous second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai romanticises neither home nor elsewhere....
...THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS by Kiran Desai Hamish Hamilton ₤16.99, 336 pages Kiran Desai, daughter of Anita, walked away with this year’s Man Booker prize for her accomplished second novel set in a Himalayan...
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