For the first time in recent years, no Indian writer figures in the long-list for the 2009 Man Booker prize with noted writer J M Coetzee, who won the prestigious prize in 1983 and 1999, in the running again for his book, Summertime

Tannishtha Chatterjee worked with Naseeruddin Shah in forthcoming film Barah Anna and says she learnt a lot from the "inspiring" actor.

Students and teachers at James Ruse Agricultural High in north-west Sydney, the alma mater of Indian-Australian author Aravind Adiga, Wednesday celebrated his Man Booker Prize win.

Indian writer Aravind Adiga on Tuesday won the 2008 Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, for his debut novel The White Tiger, the judges announced.