The Shakti Bhatt Foundation announces the 2009 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize shortlist:
Mridula Koshy's If It is Sweet, a collection of short stories, has bagged the 2009 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. The New Delhi-based author will get Rs 1 lakh and a citation on December 14 at the capital's British Council
Palash Mehrotra, 33-year-old author of 'Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction', on writing and being published in India.