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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

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Aravind Adiga
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 23
Film Director
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Madras
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Columbia
French
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