He is in a long-term relationship with Philippi Honore: a French musician, who is also known as a violinist. Set in the aftermath of the 1947 partition of India, the lavish six-part series tells the story of four families over a period of 18 months, and centres on one mother’s efforts to find an “appropriate” husband for her youngest daughter Lata, played by 23-year-old newcomer Tanya Maniktala.In fact, over the years, the Booker – the most important prize in British publishing, with the power to make careers – has consistently gone for serious, worthy novels on “important” themes at the expense of high quality, pleasurable literature that people actually want to read.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.Even one of the judges, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, disagreed with the decision to award the prize to James Kelman’s expletive-fuelled, stream-of-consciousness journey through the mind of a blind Glaswegian, famously describing the novel as “crap”.
We look at the masterpieces snubbed by the prizeHere, then, is our round-up of the worst decisions in Booker Prize history.This Sunday sees the start of one of the most eagerly-awaited dramas of the year – BBC One’s A Suitable Boy. "Earlier, CBI, ACB, Chandigarh had registered an FIR no. Rather more elegantly, Seth’s agent settled for sending one of the judges a simple note: “May God and literature forgive you.”But, of course, the snub should not really have come as a surprise to either individual; the Booker – which announces its latest longlist next week – is famous for its knack of picking the wrong book. The first episode (among six) premiered yesterday, and the reviews have been largely favourable. Vikram Seth's novel is one of 20th century's best novels – but the judges ignored it. For those in India, the wait will be longer as it will stream on Netflix later. Vikram Seth CBE, FRSL (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet.He has written several novels and poetry books. Vikram Seth has two younger siblings: Shantum and Aradhana. The probe found that Seth had "routed" the loan amounts through many bank accounts. Vikram Seth's vast panorama of post-independence, post-separation India in the 1950s comes to BBC One from 26th July in an adaptation scripted by Andrew Davies. In the same year that A Suitable Boy was overlooked, Irvine Welsh’s zeitgeist-defining debut Trainspotting was removed from the shortlist after two judges threatened to walk out. Published in 1993 to ecstatic reviews, A Suitable Boy did not even make the shortlist, prompting Anthony Cheetham, the boss of publisher Orion, to denounce the judging panel as “a bunch of w-----s”. Tata Safari, Honda Jazz, Skoda Octavia etc totalling to Rs 33 lakhs." "These family members did not have any legitimate source of income to acquire such immovable assets," the ED charged. The ED case is based on a CBI FIR lodged in 2015. It said a probe in the case is on. The original book, by Vikram Seth, is both a richly imagined family drama and a devastating depiction of caste conflict and religious intolerance in … Jonathan Coe’s much-loved, boisterous comedy of Thatcherite Britain didn’t get a look in, but is now considered a landmark in political satire.How better to reinforce your own “progressive” credentials than by picking weighty books that have “big” things to say about gender, race or a certain set of politically correct values? Vikram Seth is forthright about being gay.