"Early last year or late 2007, I had read Q & A by Vikas Swarup (on which the new film Slumdog Millionaire is based) which is also predominantly set in Indian slums and though this book is not particularly a good book and is full of some unbelievable coincidences, I enjoyed it a good deal more than the White Tiger and certainly cared more for that principal character than I did Adiga's own." . . . .