The Book Review Literary Trust has announced the winners of its second edition of the ‘Short Story Contest 2025’ on March 7. It was made on the occasion of the Fourth Nikhil Chakravartty Memorial Lecture held at the India Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, in the presence of renowned intellectual Prof. Partha Chatterjee.
Mumbai-based writer Kartikeya Shekhar won the first prize for the short story titled “Anamika”. Amita Basu, fiction writer and cognitive scientist based out of Bengaluru, won the second prize for the story, “One-See-Are”. Juanita Kakoty, an author and academic from Delhi, secured the third spot for “Fusion of Horizons”. The winners will be awarded cash prizes of ₹10,000, ₹7,500 and ₹5,000, respectively.
The event and the contest were part of the trust’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
Since August 2025, several seminars on themes such as significance of a book review in the literary and academic world, translation and children’s writings have been held across New Delhi and Bengaluru, with the fourth Nikhil Chakravartty Memorial Lecture being the final event in the series. The events were attended by literary and academic luminaries, the publishing fraternity and the general public.
