India, June 7 -- We might consider the Nobel Prize for Literature to be a holy pulpit that canonises a writer. It ordains the pantheon of all-time greats who have attained literary divinity and is where "industrial money is gilded with royal glamour, scientific benefits, and cultural sophistication". But the intimate connection between the "the cultural capital of high-brow literature. dynamite money from the donor and.the feudally rooted status of the old Swedish monarchy" has meant that the Nobel Prize has always been under scrutiny. However, most of the books on the subject have been rich in myth but poor in scholarship. The process of the selection of laureates and how that has shaped the idea of 'universal' literary values and define...