Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Random House) was the winner of the inaugural Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2008. (The call for entries; the short list.)MJ Akbar announced the winner at the British Council, New Delhi, on December 2, 2008. The announcement was followed by a reception (pictures below).
Reports: The Indian Express, DNA, The New Yorker
Anita Roy & Urvashi Butalia
Meenakshi Reddy & Rajni George
M J Akbar
Mohammed Hanif
Mohammed Hanif & MJ Akbar
Samit Basu, Meenakshi Reddy, Rajni George
Sarnath Bannerjee, Lesley Estevez, Mridula Susan Koshy
Sheela Bhatt & Neelam Gupta
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