Indian author Alpa Shah’s Nightmarch: A Journey into India’s Naxal Heartlands is among the six political non-fictions shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019. AdvertisingAmong them was Shah – the only woman, the only unarmed person, dressed as a man in an olive-green guerrilla uniform. The Orwell Prize, named on English novelist George Orwell, is considered to be Britain’s most prestigious award for political writing and seeks to highlight and award works that succeed ‘to make political writing into an art’. They have two categories for books, The Orwell Prize for Political Writing and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. It is a hope that in India, Nightmarch can challenge stereotypes about terrorism and highlight the injustices of incarcerating thousands of people as alleged Maoists.

Source: Indian Express June 13, 2019 05:25 UTC