Black and yellow tales Tom said it to reassure me, but it scared me. You mean, it was always going to be like this? Haphazard, and spent? He was American, visiting. I was, predictably, bemoaning the Americanisation of my city, my life. And he said, Dont worry. You will always have your Indian touches. These autos, you will always have them.
Rushdie among favourites He is a winner of the Booker and the Booker of Bookers, and now he is the bookies favourite to be a double Booker, after Salman Rushdie was yesterday named in the prizes longlist for The Enchantress of Florence.
Rushdies venture into historical Medici-meets-Moghul romance has divided critics.