nri-online.com — Fancied Salman Rushdie failed to make the 2008 Man Booker Prize shortlist for literature announced on Tuesday, but Amitav Ghosh and debutant Aravind Adiga stepped in to fill the Indian shoes. Ghosh's widely-acclaimed "Sea of Poppies" and Adiga's "The White Tiger" pipped Rushdie's "The Enchantress of Florence" to make the six novels in a shortlist.