Author Rajni Bakshi, prominent for her writing on socio-political movements in India, won two awards for her book Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom at the Vodafone Crossword Book Awards for 2009. The book won in the non-fiction category jointly with Sunanda K. Datta-Ray’s Looking East To Look West —category went to Malayalam author Sarah Joseph and translator Valson Thampu, for the book Othappu.
“I am absolutely overwhelmed to receive this award,” said Bakshi, who briefly thanked her mother and her publishers after picking up the awards from chief guest and popular children’s author Ruskin Bond. Her book discusses how the working of today’s free markets can be evolved in a way that is more humane.
The Crossword Book Awards were instituted in 1998 for recognizing the best of Indian Fiction in English, but have expanded to other categories over the years.
This year, the Children’s category was introduced for the first time and the Translation category was extended beyond fiction to translations in all other forms of writing.
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