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Random House India's first ventures are evidently meant to start it off with a bang: Salman Rushdie's <i >Shalimar the Clown</i> ...

Shalimar the Clown
The Certainty of Uncertainty

One of Sonny Mehta's many discoveries is Suketu Mehta. It was Sonny who persuaded Suketu to put aside the novel he was planning to write and work on something his publisher's instinct must have told him was a better bet: a biography of Mumbai. Maximum City is now on the shortlist for the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005. The winner, to be announced at a gala dinner at London's Savoy Hotel, will get £30,000, while the other five on the shortlist will pocket £1,000 each.

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