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18 See, e.g., Smruti Ranjan Behera, “The Literary Style of Mulk Raj Anand”,
in The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand: A Critical Study, ed. Manmohan Krishna
Bhatnagar and Rajeshwar Mittapalli, New Delhi: Atlantic, 2000, p.90; and
Rupalee Burke, “Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie: A Story of Human Relationships”,
in Critical Response to V. S. Naipaul and Mulk Raj Anand, ed. Amar Nath
Prasad, New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2003, p.170.
19 Charlotte Higgins, “Out of the Darkness: Adiga’s White Tiger Rides to Booker
Victory Against the Odds”, The Guardian, 14 October 2008. Retrieved 14
October 2008 at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/14/booker-prizeadiga-white-tiger
20 Rushdie, “Influence”, in Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction 1992-
2002, London: Vintage, 2003, p.71.
21 David Mattin, “The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga”, The Independent, 11
May 2008. Retrieved 14 October at http://www.independent.co.uk/artsentertainment/books/reviews/the-white-tiger-by-aravind-adiga-823472.html
22 David Sexton, “A Scathing, Abusively Satirical Antidote to the Romance
of Rushdie”, Evening Standard, 15 October 2008. Retrieved 15 October
2008 at http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23572936-details/
A+scathing,+abusively+satirical+antidote+to+the+romance+of+Rushdie/
article.do
23 Boyd Tonkin, “General Fiction: Wizards of Oz Surf into Fiction’s Front Rank”,
The Independent, 28 November 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2009 at http://www.
independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/general-fiction-wizardsof-oz-surf-into-fictions-front-rank-1037794.html
24 Huggan, The Postcolonial Exotic, p.5. According to Huggan, the “agents of
legitimation” operating within the literary field of cultural production are the
“writer himself/herself” and also “booksellers, publishers, reviewers, and, not
least, individual readers and ‘valuing communities’ (Frow 1995)” (ibid.).
25 Arjun Appadurai, “Introduction: Commodities and the Politics of Value”,
in The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun
Appadurai, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986, p.5.
26 “Q&A With Indra Sinha”, 13 March 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008 at http://
www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005088.html
27 The interviewer Anil Thakraney even went to the lengths of asking the author
if it would be “correct to say that [his] life has turned out rather like Rushdie’s”,
given that he had “followed his career in almost every single way, except for the
fatwa and Padma Lakshmi”. To this provocation, Sinha sarcastically retorted,
“Why do you say that Is it because we both grew up in Bombay, both went to
Cathedral school, both were at public schools in England, both read English
Literature at Cambridge, both went into advertising as copywriters, both
worked at Ogilvy & Mather, both worked with the same art director, Garry
Horner, on the same Fresh Cream Cakes account We differ in that Mr Rushdie
claims to have written the slogan ‘Naughty but Nice’ and I do not. Also, I have
not won a Booker Prize, did not suffer a fatwa, have no friends among the
jet-set and society hostesses don’t seem to have my number.” Quoted in Anil
Thakraney, “Bhopal’s Angel”, 22 September 2007. Retrieved 14 October 2008
at http://anilthakraneyonsunday.blogspot.com/2007/09/bhopals-angel.html
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