Adiga, Aravind

Aravind Adiga was educated in Sydney (including a period at James Ruse Agricultural High School), New York and at Oxford University. According to Sanjukta Dasgupta, Adiga's parents relocated to Australia when he was in middle school and Adiga is an Australian citizen and a dual India-Australia passport holder who 'can be claimed by both Australia and India as a cultural link' ('The Two Way Flow'. p.2).From 2003 to 2005 he was a correspondent for Time magazine in India. His first novel, set in India, is The White Tiger (2008).