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Exciting Tales of Exotic Dark India 291 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 Downloaded from jcl.sagepub.com at Senate House Library, University of London on November 29, 2010
292 Journal of Commonwealth Literature 28 Tobias A. Wachinger, “Spicy Pleasures: Postcolonial India’s Literary Celebrities and the Politics of Consumption”, ARIEL, 34, 2-3 (2003), 83. 29 James F. English and John Frow, “Literary Authorship and Celebrity Culture”, in A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction, ed. James F. English, Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, p.45. 30 Wagner, “Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize”. 31 Sudipta Datta, “South Asian Writing is Very Vibrant Right Now”, The Financial Express, 19 October 2008. Retrieved 25 November 2008 at http:// www.financialexpress.com/news/--South-Asian-writing-is-very-vibrant-rightnow--/375110/ 32 Richard Todd, Consuming Fictions: The Booker Prize and Fiction in Britain Today, London: Bloomsbury, 1996, p.101. 33 Rushdie, Midnight’s Children, London: Vintage, 1995, p.419. 34 Rushdie, “The Free Radio”, East, West, New York: Vintage, 1994, p.25. 35 Penelope ReVelle and Charles ReVelle, The Global Environment: Securing a Sustainable Future, Boston: Jones & Bartlett, 1992, p.137. 36 “The Free Radio”, p.24. 37 ibid., p.19. 38 Farhat Iftekharuddin, “Salman Rushdie”, in A Reader’s Companion to the Short Story in English, ed. Erin Fallon, R. C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee and Susan Rochette-Crawley, Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 2001, p.368. 39 “The Free Radio”, p.25. 40 “Imaginary Homelands”, p.10. 41 Quoted in David Cronenberg, “Cronenberg Interview”, in Salman Rushdie Interviews: A Sourcebook of His Ideas, ed. Pradyumna S. Chauhan, Westport, CT.: Greenwood, 2001, p.176. 42 Kanchan Gupta, “Slumdog Is About Defaming Hindus”, The Daily Pioneer, 25 January 2009. Retrieved 04 March 2009 at http://dailypioneer.com/152164/ Slumdog-is-about-defaming-Hindus.html 43 Huggan, The Postcolonial Exotic, p.158. 44 Aamir R. Mufti, “The Aura of Authenticity”, Social Text, 64, 18-3 (2000), 87-8. 45 Vikram Chandra, “The Cult of Authenticity: India’s Cultural Commissars Worship ‘Indianness’ Instead of Art”, Boston Review, February/March 2000. Retrieved 14 October 2008 at http://bostonreview.net/BR25.1/chandra.html 46 Meenakshi Mukherjee, “The Anxiety of Indianness”, in The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English, New York: OUP, 2000, p.181. 47 Chandra, “The Cult of Authenticity”. 48 ibid. 49 Akash Kapur, “The Secret of His Success”. 50 See Adiga’s interview retrieved 15 January 2009 at http://www.youtube.com/ watchv=s4tAPvWVorY 51 Somak Ghoshal, “Booker for the Billion”, The Telegraph, 23 October 2008. Retrieved 25 November 2008 at http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/TT/ TT/2008/10/23/ArticleHtmls/23_10_2008_008_019.shtml 52 Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “Diary”. Downloaded from jcl.sagepub.com at Senate House Library, University of London on November 29, 2010
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