Ottavio Quattrocchi won't go with a whimper. He is back to haunt the Congress party and Sonia Gandhi. Here, we arrange some pieces of the jigsaw, reveal a few wheels-within-wheels. Updates
With a dip in industrial production, the markets are expected to cool off. So, after October's sizzling 9.6 per cent high, be prepared to encounter a plateau.
Desai's eye for detail is meticulous, but her rich fund of humour makes her images delightfully spontaneous. The luxurious prose almost makes up for the novel's lack of emotional heft.
It's not the first time that a writer has turned down a Sahitya Akademi award (the sixth, in fact) so why is Arundhati Roy's rejection rankling the Akademi?
