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    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...
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  • business Anita Desai – Author; mother of author Kiran Desai Bhairavi Desai – American labor union leader Bindu Desai – Actress C. D. Desai – Banker and...
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  • 1990), Nepali footballer Kiran Chetry (born 1974), American television journalist Kiran Desai (born 1971), Indian author Kiran George (born 2000), Indian...
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  • including Booker Prize-winning novelist Kiran Desai. Her children were taken to Thul (near Alibagh) for weekends, where Desai set her novel The Village by the...
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  • The Inheritance of Loss (category Novels by Kiran Desai)
    The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai. It was first published in 2006. It won a number of awards, including the Booker...
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    Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is a novel by Kiran Desai published in 1998. It is her first book and won the top prize for the Betty Trask Awards in...
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    Kiran Karmarkar (born 2 May 1958) is an Indian television, film and theatre actor. He is popularly known for his portrayal of the character Om Agarwal...
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  • was awarded at a ceremony on 10 October 2006. The prize was awarded to Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss. Hermione Lee (chair) Simon Armitage Candia...
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    and rival novelist Tibor Fischer poured scorn on Banville's victory. Kiran Desai of India won in 2006. Anne Enright's 2007 victory came about due to a...
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    Jugmohan Purohit 2011–12: Don't Worry Chachu as Popatlal Desai 2012: Yeh Zindagi Hai Gulshan 2012: Ek Kiran Roshni Ki as P.K. Khanna 2012–13: Alaxmi Ka Super...
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  • include pioneering sportswriter Mary Garber, 2006 Man Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, UC-Berkeley's first tenured female physicist (and a principal contributor...
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    expedition in order to retrieve the formula. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, which won the 2006 Man Booker Prize, is set partly in Kalimpong, a hill...
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  • Bhabananda Deka Nalini Prava Deka Syed Muhammad Miyan Deobandi Anita Desai Kiran Desai Purushottam Laxman Deshpande Abdul Qavi Desnavi Venu V. Desom Mukul...
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    Branch with many prominent writers taking part, including Paul Auster, Kiran Desai, Roya Hakakian, Aasif Mandvi, and Gay Talese. People unable to attend...
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  • stars Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumaar, Satish Kaushik, Smriti Kalra, Anang Desai, and Kiran Kumar in pivotal roles. Kaagaz 2 was released to positive reviews on...
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    Shivani Desai (born 13 February 1986), professionally known as Rashami Desai, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Hindi television. She is...
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  • winner of Prix Médicis étranger Anita Desai, novelist; shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; mother of Kiran Desai Anju Hasan, author, of Neti,Neti...
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    modern love scenes, from Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss for The Carte Noire Readers. In 2011, he appeared...
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  • from his duties in space. In the 2006 novel The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai, Biju, an Indian immigrant in the USA finds solace in the song among...
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  • and a British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea. Her daughter Kiran Desai won the 2006 Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of...
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  • Indian-born author to win the prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai. V. S. Naipaul, another winner, is ethnically Indian but was born on...
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    Namesake, and a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. Kiran Desai, winner of the Man Booker Prize, and is known for the well acclaimed...
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  • various radio plays including in 2009, in "The Inheritance Of Loss By Kiran Desai". As a writer, her credits include 'There's Something About Simmy', 'The...
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    Surya Kiran (transl. Rays of the Sun) is an aerobatics demonstration team of the Indian Air Force. The Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT) was formed in...
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  • Awards Preceded by The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai National Book Critics Circle Award 2007 Succeeded by 2666 by Roberto Bolaño...
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  • , Veena; P.V., Ramanathan (2012). "The Emasculated Male Servant in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger". The Journal...
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    Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 23 March 1953) is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. She is the executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon...
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    The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton / Atlantic Monthly Press) by Kiran Desai; and The Gathering (Jonathan Cape / Black Cat) by Anne Enright, respectively...
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  • directed by Vikram Kumar. It stars Naga Chaitanya, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Prachi Desai, Gnaneswari Kandregula, Anish Kuruvilla, Tharun Bhascker, Rohini, Tanikella...
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  • Multiple categories; see 2006 Lambda Literary Awards. Man Booker Prize: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss. Miles Franklin Award: Roger McDonald, The Ballad...
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