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    India’s Fifth Man Booker!

    Aravind Adiga became the fifth Indian to win The Man Booker Prize for 2008. He
    is the fourth debutant winner to the prize. He now joins the hall of fame that sits
    past Booker winners that includes such literary giants as V.S. Naipaul, Nadine
    Gordimer, Iris Murdoch, Kingsley Amis and Salman Rushdie. He won the £50,000
    [About 4,200,000 Rupees]
    prize for his book The White
    Tiger, a book that presents
    "the dark heart" of India
    Shining. Some have blamed
    Adiga, the 33-year-old
    Chennai-born Mumbaikar, of
    painting a negative picture
    of modern India and its huge
    underclass. The awards
    administrators emphasized,
    “The White Tiger is the ninth
    winning novel to take its
    inspiration from India or
    Indian identity.”

    TIME Magazine, for which Adiga has worked as an Indian Correspondent, reported
    Adiga’s book being “extraordinarily accomplished,” “The tale of an Indian servant
    who kills his boss, it's written with wit and panache and crackles with a kind of
    joyfully subversive energy. Yet it is also a shocking portrait of Indian corruption
    and social injustice at a time when the media has tended to focus on sunnier tales
    of the nation's economic transformation.” Time commented. Adiga told TIME that
    he had initially struggled to write the book in the third person and had then
    rewritten it in just 40 days in the voice of the murderous servant.

    Adiga is the fourth native Indian author to win the Booker. He joins compatriots
    Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie and Kiran Desai. A fifth winner of the prize, V.S.
    Naipaul is of Indian ancestry. Adiga was the youngest of the finalists for the
    literary prize. He, among other authors short-listed for the prize, was among the
    only two debutants this year. Others short listed were Steve Toltz, Sebastian
    Barry, Amitav Ghosh, Linda Grant, and Philip Hensher.

    Read More At: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/14/booker-prize-adiga-white-tiger

    …And so is born a New Celebration!


    Those who feel Democracy is too good to share with just anybody give it a second
    thought. No pun intended. It’s the second most exciting thing in our own
    Democratic Republic of India. Need I mention state assembly polls? Hold your
    breath, they are announced in six prominent states. Stated by the media as a
    dress rehearsal for the next year’s general elections the elections are slated to
    occur November 14th thru December 04th. The report card will be shown on
    December 08th.

    The states going polls are Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and
    Mizoram. The Election Commission initially left out J&K for what they insisted
    were logistical reasons But later made up their mind setting aside differences. J &
    K will see polling go on for over a month. The electoral semifinal before the next
    Lok Sabha polls will see Mizoram going to the polls along with Delhi on November
    29, Madhya Pradesh on November 25, Rajasthan on December 4 and
    Chhattisgarh in two phases, on November 14 and 20. In Chhattisgarh, the two-

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    phase poll has been planned
    to deal with possible violence
    by Naxalites. The EC fears
    there could be renewed
    attacks on supporters of
    Salwa Judum. Results in all
    states will be declared on
    December 8, whereas the
    seven-phase polls for the 87-
    seat Jammu and Kashmir
    assembly which will be
    spread for over more than a
    month – the first phase of
    polls will be held on
    November 17, followed by
    November 23, November 30,
    December 7, December 13,
    December 17 and December
    24. Results for Jammu ans
    Kashmir will be announced on
    December 28. The model
    code of conduct comes into
    effect immediately.

    As they say “Lies, damned


    lies, and statistics,” the Math
    on this looks a little
    complicated. More than 150 Million voters will exercise their fundamental right to
    democracy in this election. Three of the poll-bound states – Madhya Pradesh,
    Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh –BJP Ruled and Congress’ success in overthrowing its
    rival will help it erase the psychological pressure it has accumulated from a
    sequence of losses. BJP, which hopes to exploit Congress’s sitting in Delhi, will
    appear the favorite for the LS polls if it manages to hold on to the states where it
    is in power. BJP also hopes to gain at Congress’ expense in Jammu after the
    communal division of the vote bank over the Amarnath issue.

    Read More At:


    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Assembly_poll_dates_announced_for_5_states/articleshow/35938
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    Sachin breaks Lara’s Test Record in Mohali!


    There were celebrations for Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar – named after legendary
    music director Sachin Dev Burman by his father – in Mohali as he overtook the
    West Indian legend, Brian Lara's,
    world record of 11,953 Test runs,
    and then became the first man in
    history to go past the 12,000-
    mark. Twice over. The 35-year-
    old batting whiz is already the
    world's top-scorer in One-Day
    International [ODIs] with over
    16,360 runs to his name and has
    the most centuries in Test
    matches, thirty nine to date, and
    in One-dayers too with fourty two

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    till date.

    It was a delight watch Tendulkar play. It always is. But however Tendulkar, this
    time could not add the statistical milestone he really wanted to; that of a fortieth
    century in his 152nd Test. possibly the most moving congratulation came from
    Ricky Ponting, the Australian captain, who must be measured the man most likely
    to eventually surpass Tendulkar's run aggregate - if anyone ever does. Also he is
    a year younger to Sachin and Australia plays more test matches a year than India
    does on an average.

    Sachin made his Test Cricket debut at a tender age of 16 against Pakistan in
    1989 in Karachi. From there on the little master of world cricket has never looked
    back. "The journey over the last 19 years has been fantastic," Tendulkar said.
    "There are stones thrown at you and you turn them into milestones. When I got
    out in Bangalore a few guys made it a point to remind me about the record.
    Today the focus was just to watch the ball. I tried to continue and not lose
    concentration." He Added.

    Read More At: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/oct/17/sachin-tendulkar-test-record


    Watch It At: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip7K4EXTRH4

    Glory. High Up!


    India launched its first unmanned mooncraft to orbit the moon, part of an effort
    to avow its muscle in space and aver some of the business opportunities there.
    Chandrayaan-1 is an unmanned lunar exploration mission by the Indian Space
    Research Organization (ISRO), India's national space agency. The spacecraft will
    not land on the moon, though it is supposed to send a small “impactor” probe to
    the surface. The mission also includes a lunar orbiter. The spacecraft was
    launched by a modified version of the PSLV [Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle] on
    October 22, 2008. The launching of Chandrayaan-1 comes about a year after
    China’s first moon mission.

    Indian’s moon mission is scheduled to last about two years, whilst it


    [Chandrayaan-1] would prepare a three-dimensional atlas of the moon and scene
    the lunar surface for possibly available natural resources, including uranium, a
    coveted fuel for nuclear power plants [Who knows it better than India?].

    Reactions from across the


    world have already
    started pouring in. most
    of then being very warm
    and positive. Britain has
    hailed India's successful
    launch of Chandrayaan,
    "Bravo, we are delighted
    to see it (the successful
    launch of India's first
    mission to the Moon),"
    Lord Malloch Brown,
    Foreign and
    Commonwealth Office minister in charge of Africa, Asia and UN has said. After the
    successful launch of Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation is
    planning to send its second lunar odyssey, Chandrayaan-2, an Indo-Russian joint
    venture, likely by the end of next year or early 2010.

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    Read More At: http://www.hindu.com/seta/2008/10/23/stories/2008102350011500.htm

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