Leeya Mehta

Leeya Mehta is a prizewinning poet and essayist. Her column “The Company We Keep” runs with The Independent. She has just finished a novel, Extinction.

The Coming-of-Age Story of a Muslim Boy Wins India’s Highest Literary Prize

May 28, 2019 | Leeya Mehta

Photo by Eirik Newth / Flickr In late 2018, India’s highest literary honor was awarded to Anees Salim’s fourth novel, The Blind Lady’s Descendants (Penguin India, 2015). The...