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Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga from Mangalore.His paternal grandfather was K. Suryanarayana Adiga, former chairman of Karnataka Bank, [6] [7] and maternal great-grandfather, U. Rama Rao, was a popular medical practitioner and Congress politician from Madras.
The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga.It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. [1] The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
Between the Assassinations is a 2008 collection of short stories written by Aravind Adiga. It was published by Picador in India in 2008, and in Britain and the United States in 2009. While it reveals the beauty of the rural, coastal south where it is set, its subject is the pathos, injustices and ironies of Indian life.
Selection Day is a 2016 sports fiction novel written by Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga. It was shortlisted along with four other writers for the 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. [1] It tells the story of Mohan Kumar, a chutney seller who trains his two sons: Manju Kumar and Radha Krishna for Mumbai's under-19 cricket team.
Konidela–Allu is a prominent Indian film family known for their work in Telugu cinema. At least two generations of the Konidela family and three generations of Allu family are involved in films, business ventures, and politics. Prominent heads of the family are actor-politician Chiranjeevi, and his father-in-law Allu Ramalingaiah. [7]
The following is a list of notable people with last name Adiga. Aravind Adiga, author of the book White Tiger, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2008; Gopalakrishna Adiga, pioneer of Navya-style poetry; K. Suryanarayana Adiga, Indian lawyer and politician; Rakesh Adiga, Indian film actor
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