She can comfortably afford to take occasional roles in small films and to support unknown Indian writers and directors.
Pankaj Mishra, a 27-year-old editor at HarperCollins's India division, was reading a manuscript, a first novel by a relatively unknown Indian film writer.
The film is dedicated to Lord Mountbatten, Pandit Nehru and an unknown Indian called Motilal Kothari, who suggested the subject to Attenborough in the first place in 1962.
The writer was an unknown Indian clerk, Srinivasa Ramanujan, who, despite having no degree, had schooled himself in math to a prodigious level; he was currently living, close to poverty, in Madras.
Anita Roy, Zubaan Books Nirad C Chaudhuri is seen as an anachronism now, though in the 1960s VS Naipaul wrote that his Autobiography of an Unknown Indian was "the one great book to come out of the Indo-English encounter".
PAGE A10 MUMBAI ATTACKERS PART OF POOL The 10 men who carried out the terrorist attacks in Mumbai were among 30 recruits selected for suicide missions, and the whereabouts of the other 20 are unknown, Indian police officials said.
In Davse, familiar corporate names such as Baskin Robbins – alongside more unknown Indian companies such as (bakery) "Granma's Homemade" and (vegetarian fast-food joint) "Hungry Hippo" – run coffee shops and restaurants, but also municipal buildings and services.
And if sales of Jaguar and Land Rover were disappointing under the guidance of a century-old American carmaker, will consumers be any more open to buying from a relatively unknown Indian company?
Items on display include an original dugout canoe from central Massachusetts whose builder is unknown, Indian baskets from several tribes -- including the Mohegans and the Pequots -- and elaborate beadwork and a full-size reproduction wigwam from the Chabunagungamaug band of the Nipmuc tribe from about 1760.
Nirad Chaudhuri's The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian told the story of the writer's progress from an obscure town in the Ganges delta to university in metropolitan Kolkata, and from there into clerking and poorly rewarded work for newspapers and literary magazines.
