Adiga sprung to international fame when his first novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. However, his negative portrayal of the dark underbelly of a rapidly developing India provoked attacks from several Indian critics. ...

Institute at the King’s College in London on the occasion of India’s Republic Day. The institute would be devoted to promoting intellectual and practical engagement with contemporary India, Hague said. India “enriches our shared culture in innumerable...

"It stands as a beacon of successful democratic and economic development, one that many developing nations look to for an example to follow," the veteran Conservative leader said, adding "it enriches our shared culture in innumerable ways - from the...

Adiga’s latest book ‘Last Man in Tower’ explores what it takes to turn ordinary respectable middle-class people into evil, devious, greedy beasts prepared to contemplate murder. It looks at how neighbours so emotionally and physically close that they...

But a trip through one of its countless slums or garbage dumps can be heartbreaking. A character can decide to do good in one section of the book and then do something unspeakable in the next. "Last Man in Tower" By Aravind Adiga Knopf ($26.95) "Last...

I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith) 2. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke) 3. Remembering Babylon (David Malouf) 4. The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga) 5. Brick Lane (Monica Ali) 6. The Island (Victoria Hislop) 7. The Piano Tuner (Daniel Mason) 8.