When OUT of PRINT
set the 2017 theme for the competition, it continued a subtle commentary from CHOICE that was held soon
after the last national elections, to DISSENT, EROSION
and now WATCHING.
The winning stories were picked not just
for their strength but also for the way in which they interpreted WATCHING.
The first story, about a budding stalker
evokes sympathy and an acute underlying sense of tragedy. The second plays with
birdwatching to highlight a woman’s observations on her marriage and her
husband as she inadvertently spots him. The third is the commentary of a young
woman on her family with an increasingly paranoid mother whose kindness and
humour are evident. Few of the works interpreted the theme in the sense of a
universal watcher except the fourth that features a terrifying collector of
data who is both subhuman and superhuman. Finally, story five takes the reader
into the thoughts of a young woman who yearns that for once, a lustful gaze
will fall upon her.
Judges: Ram Sadasiv and Indira Chandrasekhar,
editors, OUT of PRINT
Bikram Sharma
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Jyothi Vinod
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Selma Carvalho
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Sohini Basak
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Bhumika Anand
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