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Akademi Moor
Poll fever is brewing in the Akademi, with current chief G.C. Narang's term almost up. His opponents are bracing for yet another do-or-die battle for the Akademi's purse-strings. Their fear: Narang may opt for a second term. But they're better prepared this time. Narang will likely face either Bengal's Sunil Gangopadhyay or Kerala's M.T. Vasudevan Nair were he to decide to bend the rules and contest again.
Ek Aur KS
Ex-chief of HarperCollins Ashok Chopra is gussa. Apparently, it wasn't 6,000 copies of The Namesake that were recalled, but 7,000. Plus thousands more in UK and other countries (has anyone thought of the trees?). But he says it wasn't him who made the goof-up, but an editor in the UK.
