Judge Yourself
The jury for the big fat DSC South Asian Literature Prize is out and it’s a fine piece of juggling—a British scholar of early Indian novelists like Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao, a professor of English from Dhaka University specialising in Tagore studies, a small publisher from Karachi who runs a literary magazine and a writer from Vanity Fair working on her first book on India are among the five judges to decide next year’s winner of the $50,000 prize. Well-known translator and veteran judge of literary prizes, Ira Pande, will chair this motley group which is expected to pick five or six titles for the shortlist by next October from the couple of hundred entries expected from across the world.