She is currently employed as a conductor on the New York City subway system. She worked as a researcher in the department of applied physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and moved to the United States at the age of 26. After high school she enrolled in a Master’s program in physics. Gidla was raised in the Dalit community of Kazipet in Telengana, the Shakti Bhatt Foundation said. We are delighted to announce as the winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2018 /CG7f3nSB8P- jeet thayil October 19, 2018
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The shortlist included We That Are Young by Preti Taneja, Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan, Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal Malhotra, The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch by Sanam Maher, and How to Travel Light by Shreevatsa Nevatia. This year’s judges – Sampurna Chattarji, Raghu Karnad and Githa Hariharan – chose Ants Among Elephants from a shortlist of six titles – four works of non-fiction and two novels. With no authorial flourishes, it allows the story’s innate passion and gravitas to display themselves.” “But quite apart from the rarity and necessity of the subject –Dalit lives – the book is admirable for its clean skill and technical execution. “It is a marvel how, with so little friction or strain, Ants absorbs readers into undramatised lives of poverty, patriarchy, and rebellion, and the encounter with subaltern Communism,” the panel of judges said. The literary award celebrates debut writers and is curated by writers Jeet Thayil and Arshia Sattar. The Shakti Bhatt Foundation on Friday announced author Sujatha Gidla’s Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India the winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize, 2018. Watch: Old man lights up the mood on the street with his cheerful dance with Instagrammer.Wasting children, anaemic women: National Family Health Survey data shows troubling reversals.‘All routes to death’: A personal essay of friendship with Agha Shahid Ali in the early 1980s in USA.