Arvind Adiga, who recently won the prestigious Booker prize for his debut novel ‘The White Tiger’, is on a roll as he declared that his second novel is nearing completion.
But Adiga, who is 33 years old, didn’t disclose any further details about his upcoming book.
He said, “I like books that have ideas in them and that move and that entertain.”
‘The White Tiger’ is a supreme page turner, highly original in presenting ‘the dark side of India’.
Washington, October 21: An American study has revealed that the first two points that people look at to tell whether a face is familiar to them or not are around the nose.
Cognitive Scientists Janet Hui-wen Hsiao and Garrison Cottrell from the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center at the University of California, San Diego, examined this by showing volunteers frontal-view images of faces, one at a time, and recording their eye movements.
They used an eye tracker to record the movements of the participants, which helped detect where on the faces shown the volunteers looked.
New Delhi, Oct 21 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has left on a five-day visit to Japan and China today.
Dr. Singh will be in Japan from October 21 to October 23 for a bilateral visit and will travel to China from October 23 to October 24 for the seventh Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit.
In Japan, Dr. Singh will meet his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso and hold talks on political, security and economic ties, including a free trade agreement, aiming to expand bilateral strategic relations.
New Delhi - India's first-ever moon mission, due for launch Wednesday, was expected to return a rich yield of scientific information on Earth's neighbour besides being a template for international participation in space expeditions.
A 49-hour countdown for the launch of Chandrayaan-1, which means mooncraft in Sanskrit, began Monday at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island, 90 kilometres north of Chennai.
Paramount has delayed the release of yet another time. The first movie to be delayed for release was Harry Potter, thereafter it was The Road; this time it is The Soloist and Defiance.
No specified reasons have been given for the delay announced at the last moment. The release of Soloist has been delayed by about four months - from 21 November to 13 March. The release of soloist has been deferred to 31 Dec from 12 Dec.
Arvind Adiga, who recently won the prestigious Booker prize for his debut novel ‘The White Tiger’, is on a roll as he declared that his second novel is nearing completion.
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New Delhi, Oct 21 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has left on a five-day visit to Japan and China today.
New Delhi - India's first-ever moon mission, due for launch Wednesday, was expected to return a rich yield of scientific information on Earth's neighbour besides being a template for international participation in space expeditions.
