Alpa Shah shortlisted for Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019 | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Alpa Shah shortlisted for Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019 | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By Lifestyle Desk |New Delhi |Updated: June 13, 2019 11:09:10 am

Alpa Shah shortlisted for Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019

Published in the UK and India in 2018 and in the US this year, Nightmarch featured on a number of year-end ‘best books’ lists and has been garnering wide international acclaim.

Alpa Shah’s book traces the journey of a Naxal platoon set out on a seven-night march across 250 kilometres through Bihar and Jharkhand in 2010. (Source: Penguin Random House) (Designed by Gargi Singh)

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. The book traces the journey of a Naxal platoon set out on a seven-night march across 250 kilometres through Bihar and Jharkhand in 2010 just as the Indian government was stepping up its counterinsurgency operations in the country’s Naxal-affected areas.