Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction .In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.Kiran Desai is the daughter of Anita Desai, herself short-listed for the Booker Prize on three occasions. She was born in Delhi, then spent the early years of her life in Pune and Mumbai. She studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School. She left India at 14, and she and her mother lived in England for a year before moving to the United States, where she studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University, and Columbia University.
Arun Shourie (born 2 November 1941) is an Indian economist, journalist, author and politician.He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the Indian Express and The Times of India and a Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the Vajpayee Ministry (1998–2004). He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982 and the Padma Bhushan in 1990. Books by Arun Shourie Missionary Conspiracy Institutions in the Janata phase Where Will All this Take Us? Denial, Disunity, Disarray Symptoms of fascism Mrs Gandhi's Second Reign These Lethal, Inexorable Laws: Rajiv, His Men, and His Regime Will the Iron Fence Save a Tree Hollowed by Termites? A Secular Agenda: For Saving Our Country, for Welding it We Must Have No Price: National Security, Reforms, Political Reconstruction Hindu Temples: What Happened to ThemThem Religion in Politics Self-Deception: India's China Policies Governance and the scleros
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