Shakti Bhatt Foundation 2018 Shortlist.

In a world increasingly “broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls,” it’s unsurprising that this year’s Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize shortlist reflects the experience of the outsider, the one who does not fit because of sexuality, caste, class and gender and a hundred other real and imagined reasons.

This year’s judges, Githa Hariharan, Sampurna Chattarji and Raghu Karnad, will sift through some remarkable examples of such displacement.

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Shakti Bhatt.

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Greetings earthlings – a message from a neurotic librarian.

How is it that most thinking individuals knowing about a phenomenon which is already effecting all of us as one consistently in the recent past, don’t really give a shit? This is a post which will hopefully open some eyes and bring about some change in mindset…

 

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Greetings earthlings.

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