Shashi Tharoor, in his "The Great Indian Novel" (1989), follows a story-telling (though in a satirical) mode as in the Mahabharata drawing his ideas by going back and forth in time. His work as UN official living outside India has given him a vantage point that helps construct an objective Indianness. Vikram Chandra is another author who shuffles between India and the United States and has received critical acclaim for his first novel "Red Earth and Pouring Rain" (1995) and collection of short stories "Love and Longing in Bombay" (1997). His namesake Vikram A. Chandra is a renowned journalist and the author of "The Srinagar Conspiracy" (2000). Suketu Mehta is another writer currently based in the United States who authored Maximum City (2004), an autobiographical account of his experiences in the city of Mumbai. In 2008, Arvind Adiga received the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger.