The 'Booker Prize'
Sitting around the table, the family discusses Ria's aspirations to become a writer and the "winner of the Booker Prize" is mentioned. Is this so obviously a reference to Kiran Desai that it could not be specified?
shareNo, this is a reference to Arundhati Roy, who was the first Indian woman to win the Booker prize and it had happened just a couple of years before the movie was released. Kiran Desai won it a few years after this movie was released.
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