Slumdog Millionaire has opened up doors for me as a diplomat: Vikas Swarup

'When Q&A became Slumdog Millionaire and won the Oscars, the very first thing I received was a letter from Pranab Mukherjee, complimenting me on the huge success'

He has described himself as a diplomat who writes, and an accidental author. Vikas Swarup, author of the 2005 novel Q&A, which was adapted into the 2008 global hit film Slumdog Millionaire, is a career diplomat who is now India's High Commissioner to Canada, having arrived in Ottawa last year after a high-profile stint as the spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. Three years after Q&A, he published Six Suspects, and five years later, The Accidental Apprentice. Is it time for his fourth book? At the annual Toronto International Festival of Authors, where he was a