Tarun J Tejpal

Fun fact: Arundhati Roy’s Booker winning magnum opus was published by Tarun Tejpal . Read on for less-known details of India’s literary winners It’s an unlikely analogy, even an unfortunate one, but in some ways Arundhati Roy did for India what Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai had done just three years prior. They made Indians pick up their game in categories we often simply hadn’t competed in. It’s not that you can write a Booker-worthy novel simply because you decided to “compete” in that category. But for all the argument that mere representation is not enough, there is a powerful effect to seeing someone who looks like you, speaks like you, has the same broad cultural context as you, succeed in areas that seemed closed to you. The Indian publishing boom, which in some ways has run counter to a decline in publishing or reading in many markets around the world, bears testimony to this, just as the presence of the glamourous Indian woman on world platforms does to the explosive effect o...

"The Kapoor khandaan is like the Apple iPhone. The same product, just slimmer in every generation," said Ranbir Kapoor in an interview to Tarun Tejpal September was a month Rishi Kapoor loved just a little more than other months, and while his own birthday — September 4 — was probably part of why, it was September 28 that he often remarked on as being one of the most special days in his life. Not surprising, when one dives into the details. It was, of course, the day his son Ranbir Kapoor — worthy successor to the original "chocolate boy" legend of his father — was born. It was also however the date his first film, a landmark in Indian filmdom, Bobby, was released in 1973. It was also, coincidentally, the birthday of his sister Rima Jain, and of another figure he deeply adored and admired, Lata Mangeshkar. September 2021 should have marked Rishi's 70th birthday but he succumbed to cancer in 2020, leaving an entire generation with the void of a superstar who cam...