Advocacy group, USAsian has commended globally acclaimed author Vikas Swarup for receiving the US-India Business Council’s 34th anniversary award and for being invited to the Capitol Hill by the co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans.
Millions of Indians would have heard of Slumdog Millionaire, but few know of Vikas Swarup’s book Q and A, on which the movie is based. Which is why the book has been re-issued by the publishers with a new title, that of the film.
Jaipur: It wasn’t the big boys of the world of letters like Vikram Seth and William Dalrymple or opinion-makers such as Nandan Nilekani and Shashi Tharoor who had audiences eating out of their hands this week at Jaipur’s fourth literary festival, but a youthful-looking (though prematurely grey) boy from Allahabad. Diplomat Vikas Swarup, whose thriller Q & A has given rise to the international blockbuster Slumdog Millionaire took to the stage like a dab hand. “Don’t forget I’m a diplomat,” he shot back in response to a question about being an after-hours writer. “When I ask someone to go to hell I make sure they enjoy the ride.
Slumdog Millionaire, actor Freida Pinto’s debut film, has been declared an instant hit in the US. The film is based on the book Q&A written by Vikas Swarup.
If full-time diplomat and part-time writer Vikas Swarup (of Q&A, er, fame) had waited a bit, the skeins of the reprehensible Aarushi murder case would likely have found their way into his new, uh,
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