Hutch Crossword Book Awards 2005
The Hutch Crossword Book Awards 2005 were handed out on March 21 in Bombay. And the winners were from top: Non-Fiction: Suketu Mehta for Maximum City; Popular: Rahul Bhattacharya for Pundits from Pakistan: On Tour with India 2003-04; Translated: Krishna Sobti for her Hindi novel The Heart has its Reasons, translated by Reema Anand and Meenakshi Swami; and Fiction: Salman Rushdie for Shalimar the Clown (no, that’s not Rushdie looking suddenly young, and tan, and fit; it’s only his voice on the phone held by the excellent Mukund Padmanabhan of the Hindu.) (Hat-tip to Satish Kolluri.)
Maximum City so didn’t deserve it!
Comment by Shivam Vij — March 24, 2006 @ 1:40 pm