Anushka Jasraj wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia

Anushka, who writes short stories that often explore questions of identity and inheritance, pipped other Indians Poile Sengupta ("Ammulu") and Sreejith Sukumaran ("Another Dull Day") who were on the shortlist.
"Trying to accurately describe what winning this prize means to me would probably take as long as it took to write the story itself. This is an incredible and overwhelming honour
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First Published: May 22 2012 | 6:25 PM IST
