The Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2008 - The Winner

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