Author bags fiction award for stories on Sri Lanka

Samanth Subramanian picked up the prize in the Indian Non Fiction category for his "This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War." Journalist writer Subramanium's non fiction, which delves into stories from Sri Lanka during the war, won the prize over others shortlisted, including Rana Dasgupta for "Capital", T M Krishna for "A Southern Music", Maria Aurora Couto for "Filomena's Journeys", Arun Ferreira for "Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir," and "Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India" (PTI)