Obama's victory marks end of racism, says Gordimer

South African Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer on Monday hailed US President-elect Barack Obama's victory as an end of racism. Gordimer is in India to deliver the second Nobel laureate lecture, an initiative of the country's Foreign Ministry to provide an opportunity for Indian academics and opinion makers to interact with Nobel laureates and also enable the Nobel laureates to be exposed to the emergence of a new India.