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The Barbra Naidu Prize for the Personal Essay–Overall Winner

Feb

20

2015

Of Distances Ila Ananya Jury Citation Ila Ananya’s personal vignettes are drawn with an almost painterly craft. Searing and full of detail, her images are impossible to forget. She offers us no easy answers or manicured biography, just the ambivalences of memory.

The Barbra Naidu Prize for the Personal Essay–Open Winner

Feb

20

2015

Living Online Siddharth Vodnala Jury Citation Siddharth Vodnala’s raucous essay is a chatty guided tour of chatroom subcultures. Allusion follows anecdote in this joy-filled ode to the internet, from one of its most loyal inhabitants.

The Barbra Naidu Prize for the Personal Essay–School Winner

Feb

20

2015

Living Online Shalom Gauri 11C, Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore. Jury Citation Shalom’s essay is a laugh-out-loud funny expose of alternative school pretension. Bangalore’s multiple online subcultures star in this wry yet strangely hopeful fly-on-the-wall dissection of teenage social life.

The Prof. Barbra Naidu Prize for the Personal Essay–College Prize

Feb

23

2013

College Winner: Varun Ramesh, SJC. BEING MULTILINGUAL Is something I would not know about. My lingual is solely singular, and for this, I have few regrets.

The Prof. Barbra Naidu Prize for the Personal Essay–Open Winner

Feb

21

2013

Prithwiraj Mukherjee Being Multilingual

The Prof. Barbra Naidu Prize for the Personal Essay–School Winner

Feb

21

2013

Dipika Subramaniam Grade 9. NAFL. Being Multilingual ‘Being multilingual’. The phrase itself brings different thoughts to my head. Several, actually.