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Vikas Swarup gets diplomatic assignment

New Delhi: Vikas Swarup, whose book was turned into the Oscar-winning ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ will be India’s Consul-General in Osaka, Japan.

On his first visit to India after the Oscar glory for the film, Mr. Swarup, the author of “Q&A,” is upbeat about his new assignment.

Repudiating the labelling of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ as “poverty porn” by some critics, Mr. Swarup said his book and the film version neither glorified poverty nor trivialised it. — IANS

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