Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga CC '97 is a novelist who won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his book The White Tiger. Adiga was born in India, attended high school in Australia, and studied English at Columbia, where he graduated as the salutatorian of his class and took classes with Simon Schama. He subsequently obtained a masters at Oxford and became a financial journalist, rising to the position of Time magazine's India correspondent.
While at Columbia he showed an affinity for Barnard housing, living at least one year in a Plimpton suite.
