Kiran Desai is a favorite and US authors make a strong showing on the Booker Prize shortlist | India News – The Times of India

Kiran Desai is a favorite and US authors make a strong showing on the Booker Prize shortlist | India News – The Times of India

Indian author Kiran Desai (File photo) LONDON: Booker Prize -winning Indian author Kiran Desai is a favorite to win the coveted fiction trophy for a second time with her first novel in two decades. “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” is on a US-dominated six-book shortlist announced Tuesday by a judging panel that includes Irish…

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‘99% of them are dodging taxes’: Arundhati Roy targets ‘great nationalists’; launches her memoir | India News – The Times of India

‘99% of them are dodging taxes’: Arundhati Roy targets ‘great nationalists’; launches her memoir | India News – The Times of India

Arundhati Roy. (File photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: Author Arundhati Roy on Thursday said that “almost all the people who we call ‘antinationals’ are the ones who care” while those who project themselves as nationalists often work only to protect their own wealth.“Almost all the people who we call ‘antinationals’ are the ones who care. And then…

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