The correct answer is Vikram Chandra.Vikram Chandra is an Indian-American writer.His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth writer prize for Best First Book.?Important PointsSuketu MehtaHe is a New York-based author of the book Maximum City.Finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer prize.Arundhati Roy She is an Indian author, actress, and political activist.She wrote the noble The God of small things (1997), which won the Booker prize.