Vikas Swarup

...has served in Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia, Great Britain and South Africa, best known for his novels Q & A and Six Suspects. Vikas Swarup was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in a family of lawyers. He did his schooling from Boys'...

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...tells the story of an India where some are forging ahead while others struggle and worry they will be left behind. "But to me," said Vikas Swarup, the author of "Q&A," a novel on which the film is based, "the most enduring image was at the...

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...a job, and meets people. The more time he spends in India, the more he comes to love it. These passages, when Swarup is describing the land he so obviously adores, throb with a passion and zest that slides past everything clumsy in the novel.

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By Saibal Chatterjee, Cannes, May 19 : Bestselling Indian author Vikas Swarup and veteran actor Om Puri are not physically present at the ongoing 62nd Cannes Film Festival but they are nonetheless receiving their share of media spotlight by...

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...novel as "a corny potboiler" and "the kind of fantasy writing that gives fantasy writing a bad name. " Mr. Swarup was certainly stung by the criticisms, but said he understood the strong reactions. "Indians are sensitive to the way their...

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...market under the title "Slumdog Millionaire" with the movie's photographs splashed on the covers to draw attention. Swarup said when he enquired about the change in the book's title, he was told "this is the norm in a book-film tie, which is...

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...in every frame of the film." Freshly returned from India, where he was busy promoting "Q & A", Swarup said he was amused by hawkers trying to sell him pirated versions of his own book. "I was travelling to the IMAX in Mumbai with my...

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...has an answer to all those crying themselves hoarse about the "negative" portrayal of India: Slums are a reality in India. Swarup, whose 2003 debut novel Q and A, featured slums mainly towards the end, tells STOI the Hollywood-funded,...

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By Manish Chand, New Delhi, Jan 13: Diplomat-author Vikas Swarup is more than a millionaire now. But all the global adulation and limelight that has stalked Slumdog Millionaire, the movie version of his acclaimed novel Q and A, hasn't...

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...of course, but the movie too). Besides, the movie was based on a book by an Indian diplomat, Vikas Swarup, who we knew from the time he was posted to Washington DC in the mid-1990s. A delightful raconteur and mimic beneath a serious...

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