Aravind Adiga (Kannada: ಅರವ ದ ಅಡ ಗ) (born 23 October 1974 ) is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Read full biography of Aravind Adiga →
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like... →
When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol... →
I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed... →
Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of... →
In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their... →
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a... →
Aravind Adiga (Kannada: ಅರವ ದ ಅಡ ಗ) (born 23 October 1974 ) is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.