Arnab Pratim Dutta, Down To Earth, September 26, 2007 SURYA SEN / CSE Paying for poison: CBI on the lookout for other errant officials De-nocil, an India subsidiary of Dow Chemicals, is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (cbi) for its role in bribing Indian officials at the Union ministry of agriculture to [...]
Triumph from disaster Stephen Moss, The Guardian, Wednesday September 26, 2007 Indra Sinha has been campaigning about the poisoned city of Bhopal since 1993. But how did he come to write a Booker-shortlisted novel about it? He tells Stephen Moss about his schizophrenic friend, giving up a cosy career in advertising, and a young man [...]
UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA, Frontline magazine, Volume 24 – Issue 19 :: Sep. 22-Oct. 05, 2007 A human story Indra Sinha’s new novel, which is on the Booker shortlist, pays tribute to Bhopal gas leak survivors, who are still seeking justice. SOME time before dawn on December 3, 1984, a cloud of toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked [...]
Indra Sinha, Man Booker Website, September 25, 2007 Indra Sinha explains the story behind Animal’s People Congratulations on being shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Where were you when you got the news today and how did it feel? I’d flown over from Toulouse for the shortlist party, not knowing whether Animal’s [...]
Indra Sinha, Tehelka, 22 September, 2007 In an exclusive essay for TEHELKA, this year’s Booker nominee writes about the impossibility of capturing the anguish of Bhopal, the city that inspired Animal’s People. INDRA SINHA Over the last fourteen years I’ve written a lot about Bhopal. I’ve penned newsletters and press releases, fundraising appeals in UK [...]
Salil Tripathi, Tehelka, 22 September, 2007 SALIL TRIPATHI on Indra Sinha who gave up ad copywriting for storytelling and is probably entitled to think that he did the right thing The works of Indra Sinha, the latest addition to the pantheon of writers of Indian origin to be short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, have [...]
Anil Thakraney on Sunday, 22 September 2007 Bhopal’s Angel (The full-on Indra Sinha interview. The Mumbai Mirror carries the abridged version. Enjoy!) I have known Indra for many years, and feel proud to be called his friend. Not just because he’s an immensely gifted writer, but also because Indra cares. For us. Even as we [...]
The Guardian, September 15, 2007 Behind the clouds Kamila Shamsie is moved by Indra Sinha’s clever reworking of the Bhopal disaster, Animal’s People How do you write a novel about a world in which unspeakable horror is not the climax, but the air which each character must breathe on every page? The answer, provided by [...]
Indra Sinha, New Statesman, 13 September 2007 Surprise party – Indra Sinha on his unexpected journey to the Booker Prize shortlist We were having dinner with some friends who’d just driven up from Spain, ten of us round the table, when the phone rang. It was another friend demanding that we switch on the BBC. [...]
The Economic Times, 10 Sep, 2007 Just in case ministers had briefly forgotten what rewards await them if they will only allow themselves to yield to temptation, tantalising, coquettish Dow is flaunting its charms Delhi-wards once more. In what amounts to a ‘dance of the corporate veils’, all the PMO’s office need do to gain [...]
