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Alpa Shah
Alpa Shah is a British social anthropologist and writer specialising in Indian society. She is author of ‘The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India’, a finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and of the award-winning 'Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas', a finalist for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Shah has written for newspapers and magazines in the UK, US and India, including the New Statesman, Foreign Policy, New York Review of Books, The Times of India and Hindustan Times. Shah has also made a radio documentary on ‘India’s Red Belt’ for BBC Radio 4 Crossing Continents, reported for BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent, and co-curated a major photographic exhibition ‘Behind the Indian Boom’.
Alpa Shah is a British social anthropologist and writer specialising in Indian society. She is author of ‘The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India’, a finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and of the award-winning 'Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas', a finalist for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Shah has written for newspapers and magazines in the UK, US and India, including the New Statesman, Foreign Policy, New York Review of Books, The Times of India and Hindustan Times. Shah has also made a radio documentary on ‘India’s Red Belt’ for BBC Radio 4 Crossing Continents, reported for BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent, and co-curated a major photographic exhibition ‘Behind the Indian Boom’.
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