Anand in race for crossword award 2013
Anand Neelakantan, author from Tripunithura, is among the five short-listed authors.
Thiruvananthapuram: Anand Neelakantan, author from Tripunithura, is among the five short-listed authors for the popular award category of IDBI Bank Crossword Book Award 2013.
Asura, Tale of the Vanquished, the novel that told Ramayana from the perspective of Ravana and Bhadra, a common Asura from the banks of Periyar, was the number 1 for 2012 Crossword bestseller list.
For online voting, readers can log on to www.crossword.in (http://goo.gl/aap2ya). The Popular Award nominations in fiction are: Asura by Anand Neelkantan, The Oath of the Vayuputras by Amish Tripathi, The Bankster by Ravi Subramanian, The Krishna Key by Ashwin Sanghi and Those Pricey Thakur Girls by Anuja Chauhan. The popular award does not have a jury; readers vote their favorite author and book. Voting is both online and offline.