Q&A by Vikas SwarupCondition: Pre Loved Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested. Because how can a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school correctly answer all twelve questions on the television game show Who Will Win a Billion?unless he has cheated? As the story unfolds, Ram explains to his lawyer how he knew the answer to each question by telling a chapter of his amazing lifefrom the day he was salvaged from a dustbin to his meeting with a security

who is dying of AIDS

a soul-eater

a journalist renowned for her political exposés

Jen married young

from Rwanda

bottle up your human feelings

Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son

What tore a young family apart

a riveting portrait of a couple torn apart by secrets

Others treated the whole thing as a joke - a game

she is content living in her room speed reading e-books

Struggling with a forbidden relationship