Arvind Adiga wins Booker for "The White Tiger"

The 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction went to Arvind Adiga, an young Indian writer, for his debut novel "The White Tiger." Arvind, 33, was born in Chennai, India and moved to Australia when he was 15. This is a great achievement for the young writer, who was the youngest among the six shortlisted writers - Amitav Ghosh, Linda Grant, Steve Toltz, Philip Hensher, and Sebastian Berry.


"The White Tiger" is the story of Balram, a young Indian born in the "darkness" of rural India who is seduced by the underbelly of Delhi through his work as a driver to the son of a wealthy landlord.

Adiga is the fourth Indian writer to win a Booker after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. He received the prestigious £50,000 award at a ceremony in London.

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Vaccines, Our Life and Vaccinated

Do you think that our World is a safer place to live? I don't think so. In fact, our World is a dying planet with lots of sins like deadliest, infectious diseases. So, how can we call it safe? Today we are alive on this planet only because of the hard work of thousands of researchers around the World. I am talking about the researchers who dedicated their lives to develop vaccines against the deadly diseases.

Recently I came to know about a book named "Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases", which was written by Dr. Paul Offit. This book gives us a better view of the real condition of World. It is an inspirational tale of the medical history of vaccines and the fight of humankind against the deadly diseases. Dr. Paul Offit is a renowned expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written many scientific research papers and books on vaccines and other related areas.

The book Vaccinated tells us about the life and work of Maurice Hilleman, an American microbiologist who developed dozens of vaccines and protected lives of millions of people. If you want to know more about him, you must read Vaccinated.

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