In this form appeared the early works of Vikram Seth, Dilip Hiro and Anita Desai.

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After Rushdie and before Roy, it was Vikram Seth who made his mark in the West.

CNN: The New Masters

After the overly hyped A Suitable Boy, the lengthy four-family saga that some critics derided as a literary soap opera, Vikram Seth has come back strongly.

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Private schools include Sevenoaks School (alumni include actor Daniel Day-Lewis) and Tonbridge School, alma mater of novelist Vikram Seth and actor Dan Stevens, of "Downton Abbey" fame.

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The Subcontinent also holds a special cachet for publishers, both as a market and as a source of English-language writers, especially following the international success of authors like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth and Arundhati Roy.

CNN: Once Again, With Attitude

Vikram Seth from Vienna, Rohinton Mistry from Toronto, Amitav Ghosh from New York, Arundhati Roy from Amsterdam, Vikram Chandra from Bombay and the most illustrious of them all, Salman Rushdie, from his latest hideout, wherever that was.

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