Amit Varma

Amit Varma

Amit Varma is a writer based in Mumbai.

He used to write the weekly column "Thinking It Through" [http://www.indiauncut.com/iublog/categories/category/Thinking%20it%20Through/ Thinking It Through] ] [ [http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/its-thursday-again/ Thinking It Through discontinued] ] for the business newspaper "Mint". He also writes the popular blog, "India Uncut" [http://www.indiauncut India Uncut] ,] , which won the "Best Indiblog Award" at the Indibloggies in 2005 [ [http://www.indibloggies.org/results-2005/ Indibloggies 2005 Results] ] and was nominated again in 2006 [ [http://www.indibloggies.org/nominations-2006 Indibloggies 2006: Nominations for "Indiblog of the Year"] ] .

In October 2007, Varma won the 2007 "Bastiat Prize for Journalism" which aims to honour writers “whose work cleverly and wittily promotes the institutions of the free society” [ [http://www.policynetwork.net/main/press_release.php?pr_id=115 Indian Journalist Wins 2007 Frederic Bastiat Prize for Journalism] ] .

In 2008, his first novel, "My friend, Sancho" was one of the novels nominated to the Longlist For The Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. [http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/2008/2008longlist.php]

Awards

* Bastiat Prize (2007)


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