Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Winter 1961 • Vol. XXIII No. 1 • Fiction |

The Award

Dev Prakash had already met too many such young men during the past nine years. Research students, junior lecturers, journalists whose articles seldom got into print—they seemed to be the only people who took any interest in him.

“What I am intending for my thesis,” said the young man, “is to show how Indian writing has developed since independence.”

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